Intro to plant vocabulary

A large sac-like storage area in a cell. 

• Chloroplast

• Vacuole

• Sporophyte

• Frond

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-2

 A green pigment found in the chloroplasts of plants, 

algae, and some bacteria.

• Chloroplast

• Chlorophyll

• Peat

• Vacuole

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

The joining of a sperm cell and an egg cell. 

• Fertilization

• Rhizoid

• Absorption

• Frond

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS3-2

The stage in the life cycle of a plant in which the plant 

produces gametes or sex cells. 

• Sporophyte

• Rhizoid

• Photosynthesis

• Gametophyte

The process by which an object takes in and absorbs

light. 

• Rhizoid

• Photosynthesis

• Absorption

• Chloroplast

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

A thin, rootlike structure that anchors a moss and absorbs 

water and nutrients for the plant. 

• Cuticle

• Rhizoid

• Chloroplast

• Frond

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Compressed layers of dead sphagnum mosses that 

accumulate in bogs. 

• Rhizoid

• Chlorophyll

• Peat

• Frond

The leaf of a fern plant. 

• Frond

• Peat

• Zygote

• Vacuole

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

 A plant that has true vascular tissue. 

• Nonvascular Plant

• Peat

• Vascular Plant

• Absorption

The process by which plants and some other organisms 

capture and use light energy to make food from carbon

dioxide and water.   

• Chlorophyll

• Transmission

• Peat

• Photosynthesis

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS1-7