Chlorophyll – allows green plants to make their own food

Dormant – alive but not growing

Fall – when most seeds ripen and are carried from the parent seed

Fungi – plants which cannot make their own food

Germinate – to sprout

Green plants – necessary for people and animals to live

Nicotine – poison in tobacco

Oxygen – plants release oxygen into the air

Photosynthesis – process by which green plants use chlorophyll to make their own food

1. Broadleaf / Deciduous – lose leaves in the fall Examples: ash, elms, maples, walnuts, willow
2. Evergreen – always green Example: spruce
3. Palm – Examples: coconut, date, raphia, sabal, Washington

1. black–eyed Susan – sometimes mistaken as a yellow daisy
2. chicory – a blue flower whose roots can be ground to make a beverage
3. dandelion – has a yellow ray flower and no disk flowers
4. sunflower – tall plant with flowers that turn toward the sun

Tree Parts

1. annual rings – tell age and health history of the tree
2. crown – part with leaves, makes food for the tree, bears fruit
3. roots – anchor trees, absorb water and minerals, and spread at least as large as crown
4. trunk – tree stem

1. flowers – broccoli and cauliflower
2. fruits – apple, banana, berries
3. leaves – lettuce, spinach, cabbage, beet greens, watercress
4. roots – beets, carrots, sweet potato
5. stems – celery, rhubarb

Maples produce keys.

Oaks produce acorns.

1. apple – large quantities of seeds
2. asparagus – berries (never eat asparagus raw)
3. rhubarb – leaves
4. tomato – leaves and stems

1. air
2. animals / people
3. water
4. wind – example: dandelion

1. embryo – becomes new plant
2. seed coat – protects embryo
3. stored food – nourishes embryo

Weed – any plant that grows where it is not wanted

1. poinsetts
2. dieffenbachia
3. philodendron

If there were no green plants on earth, people and animals could not live.