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- What are three different uses for plants?
- They can provide food, medicine, wood or paper.
- Generally speaking, plants share what three qualities?
- They are green, they are attached to something, and they make their own food.
- A plant in dirt needs what three other elements to live?
- It needs sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide.
- What two types of plants don't have flowers?
- Pines and Firs don't have flowers.
- What part of the plant provides support to the rest of the plant?
- The stem provides support.
- What part of the plant anchors the plant in the soil, draws water and minerals into the plant, and stores food?
- The root does all these things.
- What gives plants their green color?
- It is called chlorophyll.
- What are three ways pollen is spread from plant to plant?
- Wind, birds and bees can disperse the pollen.
- What are the three parts of a seed?
- They are the seed coat, the embryo, and the stored food.
- When a seed plant begins to grow, one calls that what?
- It is called germination.