roots, stems, leaves, nodes - What are the various parts of plants?, hold plant securely in soil and absorb water and nutrients - What do roots do?, produce and support leaves and transport water, nutrients and sugars - What do stems do?, absorb sun's energy and make sugar - What do leaves do?, on stems and produce leaves, branches and flowers - What do the nodes do?, stems with vascular bundles carry the weight of the plant - How does a plant stand upright?, taproot and fibrous - What are 2 types of roots?, monocot and dicot - Name two types of stems., waxy, outer skin helps prevent evaporation - What does a cuticle do?, makes most of the plant's food - What does the palisade layer do?, vascular bundle (tubes) - veins, vascular tissue that moves water and nutrients into the leaf - xylem, takes sugars out of leaf - phloem, loose cells that allow water vapor, oxygen and carbon dioxide into palisade layer - spongy layer, openings that let gases in and out of the leaf (have guard cells) - stomata, green pigment inside chloroplasts (where photosynthesis takes place) - chlorophyll , cellulose - Plants convert sugar into ___ to build new structures., the xylem grows differently at different times of the year - Why do rings form in a tree?, cork (cork cambium is the living cells) - Outermost layer of bark is called ____., cell walls (hold it up) and central vacuoles (fill with water- turgor pressure) - 2 structures that help plants survive,

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