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Teacher Background Information Plant Life Teacher Vocabulary botanist – a scientist who studies plants bulb – a modified underground stem and leaves that contain food for the plant carbon dioxide – a colorless gas in the air that is absorbed by plants during photosynthesis and released when animals breathe chlorophyll – the green pigment in plants that captures light used in photosynthesis embryo – an undeveloped plant inside a seed flower – the reproductive part of a plant composed of petals, stamen, and carpel fruit – the ripened ovary of a plant that contains a seed or seeds germinate – to grow from a seed into a plant herbaceous – a plant with little or no woody tissue leaf – a green, usually flat, outgrowth from the plant stem; its primary functions are to perform photosynthesis and transpiration nectar – the sweet liquid made by plants that attracts insects and other animals oxygen – a gas that plants release; animals need this in order to live petal – the colorful leaf that surrounds the reproductive parts of a plant photosynthesis – the process that plants use to convert carbon dioxide, water, minerals, and energy from the sun into starch for food pollen – a fine powder-like material produced by plants; pollen is the male reproductive cells pollination – the transfer of pollen from the stamen to the carpel rhizome – a thickened underground stem that contains stored food for a plant and can sprout new plants Exerpted from the Plant Life Teacher’s Guide developed by the Center for Informal Science Education at the Florida Museum of Natural History/University of Florida under Innovation and Improvement Project Grant #90YD0206 from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Office of Head Start. 4 This document is in the public domain and may be freely reproduced.