Notes

The green, leaf like parts in the outermost circle of a flower are called sepals. The sepals protect the flower when it is in the form of a bud in the initial stage . sepals may either be separate from one another or joint together.

 The colored part of flower that covers the reproductive part of flower. Sepals: The outermost green color part that enclose the bud.

A flower is the reproductive part of a plant. It is the most attractive part of the plant. Different parts of a flower include sepals, petals, stamens and pistil. Parts of a flower can be grouped into two categories namely, accessory whorls and essential whorls.

The part of a plant that grows under the ground and takes in water and minerals from the soil. The main root is called tap root and the smaller roots are called lateral roots. All roots seem similar and these are called fibrous roots

Solution : . Leaves prepare their food in the presence of sunlight and a green coloured pigment chlorophyll. For this, they also use water and carbon dioxide. This process is called photosynthesis. Oxygen is given out in this process. The food prepared by leaves ultimately gets stored indifferent parts of plant.

Water comes out of leaves in the form of vapour by a process called transpiration. Plants release a lot of waterinto the air through this process.

The part of leaf by which it is attached to the stem is called petiole. The broad, green part of the leaf is called lamina . These lines on the leaf are called veins. A prominent line in the middle of then leaf, This is calledthe midrib. The design made by veins in a leaf …

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those that take support and climb up are called climbers.

Plants with weak stems that cannot stand upright but spread on the ground are called creepers.

Plants with green and tender stems are called herbs. They are usually short and may not have many branches. Some plants develop branches near the base of stem. The stem is hard but not very thick. Such plants are called shrubs .Some plants are very tall and have hard and thick stem. The stems have …

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