Plant structure and function vocabulary

The way in which plants get their water.

• Transpiration

• Roots

• Absorption

• Evaporation

A tissue made of long connected cells within a vascular plant that transports water and mineral up from the roots to all cells in the plant,

• roots

• phloem

• transpiration

• xylem

Is also called gravitropism because plants use the gravitational pull for orientation.

• Geotropism

• hydrotropism

• phototropism

• transpiration

Is a plants growth response to water concentrations.

• absorption

• phototropism

• geotropism

• hydrotropism

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS1-5

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Is the process of water movement through a plant and its evaporation from parts, such as leaves, stems and flowers

• absorption

• transpiration

• response to stimulus

• stomata

Plants respond to stimuli either through growth or through movement without growth

• Response to stimulus

• transpiration

• Stomata

• xylem

openings on the surface of leaves that allow gas exchange

• roots

• stomata

• phloem

• xylem

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

The underground part of a plant that functions as an organ to take up water and minerals, store food, and anchor the plant.

• geotropism

• phloem

• xlyem

• roots

Tissue within a vascular plant that transports food made in leaves to all other parts of the plant.

• Phloem

• xylem

• roots

• transpiration

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Is the growth of an organism which responds to light stimulus

• response to stimulus

• geotropism

• phototropism

• hydrotropism