Lessons
How do leaves help a plants?
How do stems and roots help a plant?
How do plants reproduce?
How do plants grow?
Vocabulary
photosynthesis chloroplasts
oxygen carbon dioxide
leaf stems
roots pollen
pollination pistil
eggs stamen
sperm DNA
embryo tropisms
1. What is photosynthesis?
2. Where does photosynthesis occur?
3. What is the function of chloroplasts?
4 What are the reactants of photosynthesis?
5. What are the products of photosynthesis?
6. Where do plants get the energy to carry out photosynthesis?
7. What are examples of the sugars that plants produce for energy?
8. How do you get energy from eating sugars?
9. How does water, carbon dioxide and oxygen enter and exit the plant?
Lesson 2, How do stems and roots help a plant?
1. What is the function of stems?
2. What is the function of roots?
3. What is the function of leaves?
4. What are vascular plants?
5. What are xylem and phloem tissues?
6. What is an example of a taproot and fibrous plant?
Lesson 3, How do plants reproduce?
1. What is reproduction?
2. What are two ways in which plants reproduce?
3. What is the female(s) part of a plant?
4. What is the male part(s) of a plant?
5. What determines how plants will look and grow?
6. What is pollen? What is pollination?
7. What is an embryo?
8. What are spores?
Lesson 4, How do plants grow?
1. What is DNA?
2. What is the purpose of DNA?
3. Where is DNA?
5. What are tropisms?
6. What is gravitropism?
7. What is phototropism?
8. What is thigmotropism?
9. Why should you turn your plants at least every two weeks?
Vocabulary
photosynthesis
chloroplasts
oxygen
carbon dioxide
leaf
stems
roots
pollen
pollination
pistil
eggs
stamen
sperm
DNA
embryo
tropisms
Concepts
Know the function of a plant and its parts.
Understand the process of photosynthesis.
Relate the steps of fertilization.