Unit 3 Vocabulary

The process where plants take solar energy, carbon dioxide, and water and convert it into glucose and oxygen.

• Cellular Respiration

• Photosynthesis

• Mitochondria

• Chloroplast

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Gravity is....

• The development of seeds into new plants

• A pull between two objects of mass

  (pulls things DOWN)

• A pull between two objects of mass

  (pulls things UP)

• When a seedling (small plant) bursts through the soil

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Cellular respiration is the process where cells breakdown (a)   and make ​ (b)  

• sugar
• germination
• stomata

• energy

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The development of seeds into new plants

• photosynthesis

• germination

• turgor pressure

• shoot system

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Below-ground part of the plant

• root system

• shoot system

• phloem

• xylem

Above-ground part of the plant

• root system

• phloem

• xylem

• shoot system

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Surrounds the stomata and controls the ​opening and closing.

• gravity

• guard cells

• pressure
• germination

Structures on leaves that help exchange carbon dioxide and water between plants and the atmosphere

• phloem

• gravity

• stomata

• xylem

Tissue in plants that transports nutrients through the plant.

• xylem

• guard cells

• phloem

• roots

Vascular tissue in plants that transports water throughout the plant.

• gravity

• xylem

• phloem

• stomata