Plants and how they grow

Roots, stems, leaves and flowers, and the processes that keep a plant alive: photosynthesis, pollination and germination. Twenty clues in simple words for a plant unit or a spring garden project. Act, Draw or Say is a good fit for younger classes, since most of the answers are easy to draw.

Games with this list

• Clue Bingo
• Match Up
• Summit Scramble
• I Have, Who Has?
• Talk Around It
• Act, Draw or Say
• Claim the Grid
• Quiz Night

The list

	Clue	Answer
1	Holds the plant in the ground and soaks up water	Roots
2	Carries water from the roots up to the leaves	Stem
3	Uses sunlight to make food for the plant	Leaf
4	The colorful parts of a flower	Petals
5	The part of a plant that makes seeds	Flower
6	A baby plant inside a protective coat	Seed
7	Yellow dust that flowers share to make seeds	Pollen
8	How plants make food from sunlight, water and air	Photosynthesis
9	The green coloring in leaves that captures sunlight	Chlorophyll
10	When a seed starts to grow	Germination
11	Moving pollen from one flower to another	Pollination
12	The part that holds the seeds, like an apple	Fruit
13	The gas plants take in from the air	Carbon dioxide
14	The gas plants give off into the air	Oxygen
15	Sweet liquid in flowers that bees collect	Nectar
16	A young plant that has just sprouted	Seedling
17	A plant that lives for many years	Perennial
18	A tree that loses its leaves every fall	Deciduous
19	A tree that keeps its leaves all year	Evergreen
20	An insect or bird that carries pollen	Pollinator

More science topics

• Planets and the solar system
• The human body
• Animal groups and habitats
• States of matter
• The first 20 elements
• Weather and the water cycle
• Rocks and the Earth
• Dinosaurs