Biology Plants

How does plants make their own food? 

• The roots help the plants produce their food

• Photosynthesis 

• Water

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Photosynthesis can happen in plants because they have...

• Air and water 

• Carbon Dioxide

• Chlorophyll 

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Which plant tissue does Xylem and Phloem belong in?

• Vascular tissue 

• Epidermal tissue

• Ground tissue 

What's the function of the stomata? 

• Transports water 

• Absorbs CO2 and lets out O2

• Transports food and nutrients

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Gasses are exchanged in the leaf through the

• guard cells

• roots

• vascular bundles

• stomata

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

- outermost layer and not made of cells; helps regulate water loss.

• Epidermal cells

• Palisade cells

• Xylem cells

• Waxy cuticle

layer of tall, columnar cells that contain many chloroplast for photosynthesis

• Epidermal cells

• Guard cells

• Pallisade mesophyll

• Spongy mesophyll

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

layer of irregular cells with space in between the cells

• Pallisade mesophyll

• Phloem

• Spongy mesophyll

• Xylem

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NGSS.MS-LS1-1

NGSS.MS-LS1-2

porous opening in the bottom of the leaf that allows for gaseous exchange

• Pallisade mesophyll

• Spongy mesophyll

• Stomata

• Vein

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

two cells that surround each porous opening; regulates gaseous exchange by opening and closing the pore.

• Epidermal cells

• Guard cells

• Stomata cells

• Xylem cells

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NGSS.MS-LS1-2

NGSS.MS-LS1-6