Transporting Materials

Tubelike cells that transport water and nutrients

• Vascular Tissue

• Oxygen

• Epidermis

• Esophagus

distributes water and dissolved minerals upward through the plant, from the roots to the leaves

• xylem

• phloem

• stomata

• epidermis

carries food (sugar) downward from the leaves to the roots

• xylem

• phloem

• stomata

• epidermis

Carbon dioxide, oxygen, and water vapor pass into and out of a plant through small openings called the

• xylem

• phloem

• stomata

• lungs

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Surface layer of a leaf

• xylem

• phloem

• stomata

• epidermis

Release of water from a plant

• transpiration

• respiration

• evaporation

• condensation

Enters the body when you inhale (breathe in)

• Oxygen

• Carbon Dioxide

• Transiration

• Xylem

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-3

Leaves the body when you exhale

• Oxygen

• Carbon Dioxide

• Transiration

• Xylem

Tubelike passageway at the top of the throat that receives air, food, and liquids from mouth or nose.

• Pharynx

• Bronchi

• Lungs

• Diaphragm

Tube that is held open by C-shaped rings of cartilage, connects to the bronchi

• Lungs

• Trachea (windpipe)

• Diaphragm

• Oxygen