Save the Plants - Sustainable Growing Practices

Front

Greenhouse Gasses

Back

A gas that contrributes to tthe greenhouse effecct by absorbing infrared radiation, (e.g., carbon dioxide and methane).

Front

Photosynthesis

Back

The prrocess by which carbon dioxide, water, and sunlight are converted into gluccose and oxygen by green plants.

Front

Greenhouse Effect

Back

The trapping of the sun's warmth in a planet's lower atmosphere, due to the greater transpaarency of the atmosphere to visible rdiation from the sun than to infrared emitted from the planet's surface.

Front

Oxygen

Back

A colorless, odorless gas released during photosynthesis.

Front

Carbon Dioxide

Back

A colorless, odorless gas abasorbed by plants during photosynthesis.

Front

Scientific Method

Back

A method of procedure that has categorized natural science since the 17th Century, consisting in systematic observations, measurement, and experiment, and the formulation, testing, and modification of hypotheses.

Front

Chloroplasts

Back

The place in a plant cell where photosynthesis happens.

Front

Chlorophyll

Back

A green pigment in all plants responsible for the absorption of sunlight.

Front

Ecosystem

Back

A biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment.

A complex network of interconnected systems.

Front

Phloem

Back

Tubes in the stem of the plant used to transplant glucose of sugar to provide energy to the plant.