Unit 2 Vocabulary

Living things that absorb food from living or dead matter around them

• Yeast

• Spore

• Algae

• Fungi

A microscopic package of cells produced by a fungus or plant that can grow into a new individual.

• Yeast

• Spore

• Algae

• Fungi

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS3-2

A microscopic, single-celled fungus

• Fungi

• Spore

• Yeast

• Algae

A simple plant-like organism that makes its food by photosynthesis

• Algae

• Yeast

• Fungi

• Spore

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

A plant that is specifically adapted to live in water

• Chlorophyll

• Photosynthesis

• Hydrophyte

• Frond

A process that uses light energy to make food from simple chemicals

• Chlorophyll

• Photosynthesis

• Hydrophyte

• Frond

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

The green chemical that gives most plants their color; it traps the sun's energy so that the plant can use it to make food

• Chlorophyll

• Photosynthesis

• Hydrophyte

• Frond

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

The leaf of a fern or palm

• Chlorophyll

• Photosynthesis

• Hydrophyte

• Frond

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

A plant that reproduces by bearing flowers, fruit and seeds

• cotyledon

• pollination

• dicot

• angiosperm

The transfer of pollen from the male part of a plant's flower to the female part

• cotyledon

• pollination

• dicot

• angiosperm