Plant Adaptations and Development

What is an adaptation?

• The process where a species becomes better suited to its natural environment

• A change in the weather

• The process where plants gain nutrients from the sun

A Plant adaptation to prevent drying out

• cuticle

• photosynthesis

• spores and seeds

• bark

A Plant adaptation to make food

• leave for photosynthesis

• cuticle

• spores and seeds

• cell walls

A Plant adaptation for reproduction

• spores and seeds

• cuticle

• bark, vessels and cell walls (cellulose)

• cell walls

A Plant adaptation for gravity and support

• spores and seeds

• cuticle

• bark, vessels and cell walls (cellulose)

• cell walls

A Plant adaptation for transporting water and food

• spores and seeds

• cuticle

• bark, vessels and cell walls (cellulose)

• roots and vessels

A hormone is

• a chemical substance produced by one part of an organism and transported to another, which brings about a response

• an enzyme produced by a root and transported to a leaf

• a chemical substance produced by the reproductive part of a plant

What term refers to a plant growing or moving away from a stimulus?

• Touch
• Tropism
• Dormancy
• Development

When a plant grows away from a stimuli it is called:

• Positive 
• Negative

 A stimulus is ___________

• a change in an organisms surroundings that causes a reaction
•  process in which organisms grow larger.
• a reaction to a change in surroundings
• the result of sexual reproduction.