Planting Terms
Name: ______________________ Date: ____________
Write the letter of the matching definition next to each term.
1. soil
A. The part of the earth's surface consisting of humus and disintegrated rock
2. sunlight
B. The usually underground organ that lacks buds or leaves or nodes (plural)
3. planter
C. A worker who puts or sets seeds or seedlings into the ground
4. air
D. To take up mentally
5. transplant
E. A slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ
6. water
F. Tissue or organ ___ from a donor to a recipient
7. sprouts
G. The rays of the sun
8. absorbed
H. Capital and largest city and economic center of Peru
9. roots
I. Any new growth of a plant such as a new branch or a bud (plural)
10. beans
J. A mixture of gases required for breathing
11. stem
K. Green parts of a tree that fall in autumn
12. growing
L. Clear liquid we drink that falls as rain
13. leaves
M. Any of various edible seeds of plants of the family Leguminosae used for food (plural)
14. lima
N. The production of crystals by slow crystallization from the molten state
15. photosynthesis
O. How plants make food from sunlight