
1. What is a Vascular Plant?
- A Vascular plant is a plant that has lignified tissues for conducting water, minerals, and photosynthetic products through the plant.
2. What structures do all vascular plants share?
- Vascular plants share a similar set of structures called roots, stems, and leaves.
3. What are the roots designed to do?
- The roots are designed to pull water and minerals from whatever material the plant sits on, ex.)Water, soil or branches.
4. What are the two jobs of a stem?
- The two jobs of a stem are transporting food and water and acting as support structures.
5. What is the job of the xylem vessels?
- The Xylem vessels are connected end to end for the maximum speed to move water around. They also have a secondary function of support.
6. What does the pholoem transport?
- The phloem (cells) transport the sugars and other molecules created by the plant.
7. Inside leaves are organelles(tiney organs) called chloroplasts. Inside chloroplasts is a green substance called chlorophyll. What is the job of chlorophyll?
- The job of chlorophyll is that it captures the light from the Sun and start the whole process.
8. In photosynthesis, what molecules combine together to form what compounds?
- In photosynthesis Carbon dioxide and water combine with light (molecules)to create oxygen and glucose (compounds).

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