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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Do non-vascular plants circulate water? True or false? | False |
| Do non-vascular plants don't have true roots, stems and leaves? True or false. | True |
| Do non-vascular plants have vascular tissue? True or false. | false |
| Do non-vascular plants don't absorb water from cell to cell? True or false. | false |
| Do foundation plants prevent erosion? True or false. | false |
| Are vascular plants the biggest group in the animal kingdom? True or false. | true |
| Do vascular plants have true leaves, stems and roots? True or false. | true |
| Do vascular plants don't have stems either woody or herbaceous? True or false. | false |
| Do vascular plants have tube-like structures that provide support and help circulate water and food? True or false. | true |
| Is it true that spores are much smaller than seeds? | true |
| what type of plant produces spores? | spore producing plant |
| is it true that almost all flowerless plants don;t reproduce spores? | false |
| what's an example of spore producing plant? | mosses and ferns |
| what type of plant reproduces through seeds? | seed producing plant |
| Is it not true that seed plants make their own seeds? | false |
| what are the two major groups come from seed producing plants? | cone bearing and flowering |
| Is it true that the most diverse group of seed bearing plants is cone bearing? | true |
| Are most cone bearing plants evergreens? | true |
| What are conifers? | are trees or shrubs that never have flowers and needlelike leaves. |
| What is another name for cone bearing plants? | gymnosperms |
| Is it false that the vast majority of plants are flowering plants? | true |
| Give examples of flowering plants. | flowers, trees, shrubs, vines, fruits, vegies and legumes |
| What's the difference from conifers and flowering? | because conifers grow their seeds inside an ovary in the flower |
| What are seeds that store food in one or two seed leaves are called______. | cotyledons |
| What is another name for flowering plants | angiosperms |
| What is the name of a seed leaves with one food storage area and have either three or multiples of three petals. | monocotyledons |
| How are vascular tubes placed for monocotyledons? | randomly |
| leaves are long and slender with veins parallel to each other is what? | Monocotyledons |
| Give some examples of monocotyledons. | grass, corn, rice, lilies and tulips |
| What is the name of a seed leaves with two storage areas and have four or five or multiples of four or five. | dicotyledons |
| Leaves are usually wide with veins that branch off each other. | Dicotyledons |
| How are vascular tubes places for dicotyledons? | arranged in circle within the stem |
| Give some examples of dicotyledons. | roses, dandelions, maple and oak trees |
| Is it false that all seed plants have vascular tissue that transport materials throughout the plant? | yes |
| All seed plants use what to reproduce? | seeds |
| What do all seed plants have? | roots, stems and leaves |
| _____ is water and nutrients are carried to the leaves to make food for the plant. | xylem |
| _______ is when food is made in the plant's leaves, it enters the phloem and travels to the plant's roots and stems. | phloem |
| _____ are structures that contain a young plant inside a protective covering | seeds |
| The _____ is a young plant that develops from a fertilized egg ( zygote) | embryo |
| The ______ protects the embryo and it's food from drying out. | seed coat |
| The ______ as the embryo begins to grow it uses stored food in the seed until it can make its own food. | stored food |
| The ________ is the early growth stage of the embryo. Germination begins when the seed absorbs water from the environment. | germination |
| What capture the sun's energy and carry out photosynthesis | leaves |
| _________ are structures on the underside of a leaf open and close to allow gasses in and out( when open, carbon dioxide enters and oxygen and water vapor vapor exit) | stoma |
| What is transpiration? | the process by which plants loose water |
| What is chlorophyll? | in the chloroplasts traps energy from the sun |
| what do stems do? | they carry substances between the roots and leaves |
| What do stems provide? | support and holds up the leaves to absorb sunlight |
| What do stems contain? | the vascular tissues xylem and phloem |
| _____ absorb water and nutrients from the soil. It also is anchored to the ground. | roots |
| What do roots contain? | the vascular tissue xylem and phloem |
| what is the colorful part of the flower? | petal |
| What is the leaf like structure that encloses the unopened flower bud? | sepal |
| What is the male reproductive part of a flower? | stamens |
| What is the female reproductive part of a flower? | Pistal |
| What is in the stamens reproductive part? | the filament and anther |
| What is in the pistal reproductive part? | the stigma, style and ovary |
| What is the anther? | the knob that produces pollen |
| What is the filament? | stalk |
| What is the style? | tube |
| What is the stigma? | sticky part |
| What is the ovary? | the very center of the flower |
| _______ is a plant's growth response toward or away from the stimulus? | tropism |
| What is hydrotropism? | a plant shows positive hydrotropism when it grows toward water |
| What is gravitropism? | a plant shows positive gravitropism is when grows toward the gravity of the earth (roots) |
| What is phototropism? | a plant shows positive phototropism when it grows toward the light |
| What is Thigmotropism? | a plant shows positive thigmotropism when it moves toward objects that it touches |
| Give an example of a tuber. | potatoes |
| Give an example of a bulb. | onions |
| Give an example of a runners. | strawberries |
| Give an example of stem cuttings. | pineapples |
| Give an example of roots. | sweet potatoes |
| Give an example of leaves. | african violets |
| What is binomial nomenclature? | Linnaeus classified organisms by using two part names |
| What is Taxonomy? | the scientific method of how things are classified |
| What is Linnaeus? | grouped organisms based on observation features |
| A relationship where at least one organism benefits. Which is what? | symbolic |
| A symbolic relationship between algae and fungus or bacteria. Which is what? | lichen |
| When it benefits both which is what? | parasitism |
| When it don't harm anything benefits from one which is what? | communitism |
| what does crustose look like? | looks like layers of dead skin |
| What does foliose look like? | looks like leafs |
| What does fruitose look like? | looks like little trees |
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