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8th Grade Botany
Final Review
Question | Answer |
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1. Why do scientists use Latin to name living things? | p.3 So that all scientists can say it the same way. Latin never changes. |
2. What is a vascular plant? | p.8 A plant with tubes that carry liquid inside. |
3. What is a nonvascular plant? | p.10 A plant that does not have tubes inside. |
4. What is the purpose of a flower? | p.12 To produce seeds. |
5. What is inside a seed? | p.21 A baby plant. |
6. What does it mean when a plant is germinating? | p.26 The plant is growing. |
7. What is a producer? | p.28 A plant that makes its own food. |
8. What is a consumer? | p.28 Living things that consume other parts of God's creation to live. |
9. What is the sepal of a flower? | p.38 The green leaf-like points under the petals. |
10. What is the corolla of a flower? | p.38 All of the petals together. |
11. What is the stigma of a flower? | p.40 The sticky head at the top of the style. |
12. What do the anthers that are on little stalks inside the flower do? | p.39 They produce pollen. |
13. What are carnivorous plants? | p.43 Plants that eat meat. |
14. Name one carnivorous plant. (Bonus: name additional carnivorous plants) | p.43 Venus fly trap, bladderwort, pitcher plant, sundews |
15. Why does a flower need to be pollinated? | p.40 To make seeds. |
16. What is self-pollination? | p.49 When the pollen from the stamen goes to the carpel on the same flower. |
17. What is wind pollination? | p.49 When the wind blows the pollen from one flower to the carpel on another flower. |
18. What animals pollinate plants? | p.50 Bees, birds, bats, and butterflies. |
19. What is the main purpose of a fruit? | p.67 To protect the seeds. |
20. What is a vegetable? | p.72 Any edible part of a plant that doesn't have seeds. |
21. What is seed dispersal? | p.73 The process of getting the seed from the parent plant to a new location. |
22. Explain how water dispersal might work. | p.74 Seeds can float in the water to a new location. |
23. What is mechanical dispersal? | p.76 When the plant shoots out the seeds. |
24. What is human dispersal? | p.73 When we plant seeds. |
25. Name one animal that helps disperse seeds. | p.78 A dog. |
26. How does it do this? | p.78 A dog picks up burrs with its hair by accident and drops them somewhere else. |
27. Name another animal that helps disperse seeds. | p.78 A bird. |
28. How does it do this? | p.78 A bird can carry a seed off and drop it somewhere else. |
29. Name a third animal that helps disperse seeds. | p.78 A squirrel. |
30. How does it do this? | p.78 A squirrel will take a seed and bury it somewhere else. |
31. Why are leaves important to a plant? | p. Leaves have holes so it can breathe. |
32. What are stomata? | p. |
33. What is photosynthesis? | p. |
34. What does a plant need in order to make food? | p. |
35. What is chlorophyll? | p. |
36. Which tree makes the sap that we use to make pancake syrup? | p.90 Maple tree |
37. What is geotropism? | p.111 Roots are always turning toward the earth. |
38. Why do plants sometimes experience transplant shock when they are dug up and replanted? | p. |
39. Why do trees or plants sometimes grow in strange distorted shapes? What are they seeking when growing like that? | p. |
40. Why are trees important for people and animals? | p.124 Trees provide shelter, shade, beauty, food, healthy air, and firewood. |
41. Why is it harmful to remove the bark from a tree? | p.131 The bark provides protection for the tree. |
42. Where is the largest tree in the world found? | p.135 The Pacific Northwest of the United States. |
43. What is it called? | p.135 Giant sequoia |
44. Where is the oldest tree found? | p.136 California |
45. What is it called? | p.136 Methuselah |
46. What do conifers make to house their seeds? | p.139 pine cones |
47. What do ferns make in order to reproduce? | p.145 sporangia |
48. What are fiddleheads? | p.148 immature ferns |
49. How are spores different from seeds? | p. |
50. Name the three types of nonvascular plants that you studied. | p.152 moss, lichen, liverworts |