Plant Structure and Function Vocabulary

What is fertilization?

• The part of a plant that makes food

• The process when male and female reproductive parts come together

• The transfer of pollen

• Part of a plant that contains a new plant

The part of a plant that makes food using air, light and water.

• Seed

• Root

• Spore

• Leaf

The transfer of pollen in flowers or cones

• Fertilization

• Reproduction

• Pollination

• Root

To have young, or more living things of the same kind

• Reproduction

• Seed

• Spore

• Fertilization

A plant part that is usually underground that absorbs water and nutrients from the soil.

• Spine

• Spore

• Seed

• Root

The part of a plant that contains a new plant

• Seed

• Spore

• Root

• Spine

A reproductive structure of some plants, such as mosses or ferns, that can form a new plant.

• Spine

• Leaf

• Stem

• Spore

The part of a plant that has tubes that carry water, minerals and nutrients through the plant

• Leaf

• Stem

• Root

• Flower