Question | Answer |
What group of organisms are all multicellular producers? | plants |
What did the first plants need to be able to do in order to survive? | reproduce in water |
Why do plants grow in many different (diverse) place? | they are able to adapt to their environment |
What is a young, undeveloped plant, with its nutrients and protective coating, called? | a seed |
What is the name for an immature form of a plant that has potential to grow into a new plant? | an embryo |
What is the process by which green plants convert solar energy to chemical energy? | photosynthesis |
What is the name for the male part of the flower? | the stamen |
This is the process in which the stomata controls water loss from the leaf | transpiration |
This word means "naked seed" in Greek because it has no protection. | embryo |
This is one the three structures that separate plant from animal cells. | cell wall |
This is the vascular tissue that takes water up from the roots in the plant | xylem |
What is the name for the female part of the flower? | the pistil |
What is the name for the beginning growth or a new plant from a seed or a spore | germination |
This is the vascular tissue that takes food from the leaves to the rest of the plant. | phloem |
What is the name for the part of the stamen where pollen is produced? | the anther |
Mosses use these to reproduce. | spores |
What is the name for cone-bearing plants like pine trees? | conifers |
What type plants reproduce with fruits and flowers? | angiosperms |
What is the purpose of the vascular system in most plants? | to carry water and nutrients through the plant |
Mosses are nonvascular. What does this prevent them from doing? | growing tall |
Where does pine tree pollen come from? | male pine cones |
What is housed inside a flower? | the sperm and egg cell of an angiosperm |
What is also transported by bees when they collect nectar from flower to flower? | pollen |
What 2 structures of a leaf keep it from drying out? | the cuticle and the stomata |
What are 2 functions of the root system? | to anchor the plant and collect water and nutrients |