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When sunlight provides the energy for the food making process.
How does photosynthesis work?
A plant uses carbon dioxide gas and water to make food and oxygen. |
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| The structures in plant cells in which food is made. |
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| A large storage sac than can expand and shrink like a balloon. |
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| A waxy, waterproof layer that covers the leaves of most plants. |
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| A system of tubelike structures inside a plant through which water, minerals, and food move. |
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| Occurs when a sperm cell unites with an egg cell. |
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| Plants that lack a well developed system of tubes for transporting water and other materials. |
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| Plants with true vascular tissue. They are better suited to life in dry areas. |
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| A stage in the life cycle of a plant where the plant produces spores, which are tiny cells that can grow into new organisms. |
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| A life cycle of a plant where a spore develops into a new organism. In the gametophyte stage, the plant produces two kinds of sex cells: sperm cells and egg cells. |
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| A process by which some objects such as glass and other transparent materials to allow light to pass through them. |
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| The process when light hits a shiny surface such as a mirror and the light bounces back. |
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| When dark objects take in light. |
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| A blackish brown material that is formed when mosses become compressed into layers. |
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| The leaf of a fern plant. |
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| Thin rootlike structures that anchor moss and absorb water and nutrients. |
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