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PLANTS
PLANT SYSTEMS TEST
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is the phylum name for mosses? | Bryophyta |
| Does moss have true roots, stems, and leaves? | No |
| What do seedless nonvascular plants need for reproduction? | Water |
| What is the phylum name for ferns? | Pterophyta |
| What are examples of a seedless nonvascular plants? | Moss, liverworts, and hornworts |
| What are examples of seedless vascular plants? | Club mosses, whiskferns, horsetails, and ferns |
| Do ferns have true roots, stems, and leaves? | Yes |
| What does gymnosperm mean? | Naked Seed |
| Do gymnosperms have true roots, stems, and leaves? | Yes |
| What is the phylum Coniferophyta commonly called? | Conifers |
| What is the most common gymnosperm? | Conifers |
| What is the phylum name for a flower? | Anthophyta |
| Do flowers have true roots, stems, and leaves? | Yes |
| Are the spores released by spore capsules in moss haploid or diploid? | Haploid |
| What is released by male cones? | Pollen |
| What is the movement of male gametophytes to female gametophytes? | Pollination |
| What is released by female cones? | Seeds |
| Is the stamen female or male? | Male |
| Is the carpel female or male? | Female |
| What is a long thin cell that anchors the moss to the ground in absorbs water and minerals from the surrounding soil? | Rhizoid |
| What is the leafy green parts of moss called? | Gametophytes |
| What are the stock in capsule of a moss called? | Sporphytes |
| What structure is a large leaf on a fern? | Frond |
| What structure is a newly forming frond? | Fiddlehead |
| What is a structure that is a cluster of sporangia? | Sori |
| What is a female cone called? | A seed cone |
| What is a male cone called? | A pollen cone |
| What is a structure that contains the male form of the plants gametes? | Pollen grain |
| What protects the fertilized eggs? | The seed |
| What is the reproductive structure of a angiosperm called? | Flower |
| What is a mature ovary called? | Fruit |
| What is a flower structure in which pollen grains are produced? | Anther |
| What is the female structure of a flower, made up of the ovary, style, and stigma? | The carpel |
| What is a stock like structure that supports an anther? | Filament |
| What is the structure in the innermost part of the flower that produces the female gametes which become seeds after fertilization? | Ovules |
| What is a brightly colored modified leaf found just inside the sepals? | Petal |
| What is part of the outermost circle of the flower and protects the flower while it is developing? | The Sepal |
| What is the male structure of a flower, made up of the anther and the filament? | The stamen |
| What is the sticky portion at the top of the style where pollen grains frequently land? | The stigma |
| What is the elongated parts of a carpel? | The style |
| What is the function of roots? | Water absorption, nutrient absorption, anchors plants, and some can store food |
| What is the purpose of stems? | Conducts water, conducts food, support leaves, and supports flowers |
| What are the functions of leaves? | Photosynthesis, respiration, and transpiration |
| What type of root system, has one main root, usually large, that grows straight from the stem and collects water deep from the ground? | Taproot |
| What type of root system is made of thread like roots and collects water from the surface? | Fibrous root |
| What is a much thickened underground part of a stem or rhizome? | Tuber |
| What type of leaf consists of several or many distinct parts blades joined to a single stem? | Compound leaf |
| What type of leaf consists of one blade joined to one stem? | Simple leaf |
| What type of plants have stiff stems and branches? | A woody plant |
| What type of plants do not produce wood? | Herbaceous |
| What transports water and dissolved minerals up from the roots to the rest of the plant? | Xylem |
| What carries the products of photosynthesis throughout the plant? | Phloem |
| What type of tissue are xylem and phloem made of? | Vascular tissue |
| After fertilization, an ovary develops into a _________ and an ovule develops into a _____________. | Fruit, seed |
| When are animals used to disperse seeds? | When the seeds are not digestible; when the animals pick them up because of bristles |
| When is wind used to disperse seeds? | When seeds have parachute or wing like structures |
| When is water used to disperse seeds? | When seeds can float |
| What type of lifespan is completed within a year? | Annual |
| What type of lifespan is completed in two years? | Biennial |
| What type lifespan is when plants take at least two years to complete their first lifecycle then grow for many seasons? | Perennial |
| What senses enable pollinating animals to find flowers? | Sight and smell |
| What type of fertilization is when pollen from anther fertilizes the egg on the same flower? | Self fertilization |
| What type of fertilization is when pollen is transferred to the stigma of a different plan? | Cross fertilization |
| What is a plants response to an external stimuli? | A tropism |
| What is a substance produced in one part of an organism that affects another part of the organism? | Hormone |
| What plant hormone simulates cell elongation? | Auxin |
| What plants hormone simulate cell division in makes dormant seeds sprout? | Cytokines |
| What is the response of a plants to periods of light and darkness called? | Photoperiodism |
| What is the response of a plant to light? | Phototropism |
| What is the response of a plant to touch? | Thigmotropism |
| What is their response of any plant to gravity? | Gravitropism |
| What surrounds each stomata and can open and close? | Guard cells |
| What are pores is in the cuticle of the plant through which gas exchange occurs? | The stomata |
| What factor regulates the opening and closing of stomata? | Temperature, humidity, and the amount of CO2 |
| What Information can be gathered from looking at tree rings? | Age of the tree and climate when that part of the tree was growing |
| What is the organization system in plants? | Cells, tissues, organs, organ system |
| What is the center of a root or stem? | The vascular cylinder |
| What are tiny projections in the roots called? | Root hairs |
| What is a small kind of cells that protects the growing part of the roote as it pushes through the soil? | rootcap |
| What type of growth lengthens roots and stems? | Primary growth |
| What type of growth widens stems and roots? | Secondary growth |
| What type of meritsem is found at the ends of stems and roots and is caused by primary growth? | Apical Meritism |
| What type of meritisim is found in trunks and in the outer layers and is caused by secondary growth? | Lateral Meritism |
| What type of wood is at the center and is the oldest part of the tree? | Heartwood |
| What type of wood conducts water and grows in bands? | Sapwood |
| What are layers of xylem called? | Wood |
| What part of the leaf is broad and flat and collects sunlight? | The blade |
| What connects the blade and the stem? | Petiole |
| What is the release of vapor through pores of stomata? | Transpiration |
| What type of tissue is found between the two dermal layers of a leaf? | Mesophyll |
| What is the technical word for seed leaf? | Cotyledon |
| What is the source of reserve materials and food for the developing embryo? | The endosperm |
| What is it called when the seed begins to sprouts? | Germination |
| What is a sheath that encloses the shoot of the embryo? | Coleoptiles |
| What type plant cell is most common; stores starches and oils; and is most commonly found in the flesh of fruits? | Parenchyma cell |
| What type of plant cell provides plants support to grow younger tissue and is in the form of strands? | Collenchyma cell |
| What type of plant cell is the strongest and forms fruit pits? | Sclerenchyma cell |
| What type of plant tissue is on the outside of plants and secretes a wax coated substance made up of dead cells? | Dermal tissue |
| What type of plant tissue provide support and protection and is made up of all types of cells? | Ground tissue |
| What type of tissue is surrounded by ground tissue and transports minerals and water? | Vascular |
| What process occurs at the blade of a leave? | Photosynthesis |
| What two properties of water help move it upward? | Cohesion and adhesion |
| Are stomata more likely to be open or closed on a hot day? | Closed |
| Name two examples of plants that are monocots. | Grass and wheat |
| Name two examples of plans that are dicots. | Maples and Oaks |
| The majority of flowering plants are...... | Dicots |
| Most of our food supply comes from..... | Monocots |
| Monocot or dicot? Has one seed leaf, parallel veins on a leaf, petals come in multiples of three, and has fibrous roots. | Monocot |
| Monocot or dicot? Has two seed leaves, net like veins on the leaf, petals come in multiples of four and five, and a taproott. | Dicot |
| What change takes place in an angiosperms ovary as its seed matures? | The ovary walls thicken |
| Why do farmers need to plant wheat each year? | Because wheat has an annual lifespan |
| Biennals are pollinated during their _____ year of growth? | 2nd |
| Why will it not help to bring annuals indoor for the winter? | Because their lifespan is no longer than a year |
| What type of fruit has papery leather walls that open along the seams? | Simple fruit |
| What type of fruits develop from flowers? | Aggregate fruit |
| What type of fruit is when multiple fruits develop from one flower? | Multiple fruit |
| How does the cactus adapt to it's environment? | It has spines to discourage animals from eating it |
| How do conifers adapt to their environment? | The shape of many conifer trees helps shed heavy snow to save branches from breaking, and it's dark colors allow solar heat to be absorbed |
| How do plants in the Tundra adapt to their environment? | They are covered in hair, they grow in clumps |
| How do aquatic plants adapt to their environment? | They are more flexible to move with water currents |
| Name the phylum. Moss. | Bryophyta |
| Name the phylum. Vascular seedless. | Pterophyta |
| Name the phylum. Seed plants that bear cones. | Gymnosperms |
| Name the phylum. Special structures include: frond, fiddlehead, rhizome. | Pterophyta |
| Name the phylum. Vascular seed plant that contain ovaries. | Anthophyta |
| What stores water, starch, or sugars in both roots and shoots? | Cortex |
| Which of plant tissues are photosynthetic? | Ground tissue and the dermal tissue |
| What is the waxy layer on the leaf that prevents water loss? | Cuticle |
| What molecule would you find in the cuticle? | Lipids |
| The dermis is made of _______ ________. | Epidermal cells |
| What are root hairs made of? | Epidermal cells |
| How do the plant's systems work together when a flower needs to be produced? | The response system send out a hormone, the transport system moves the hormone around the plant, and the reproductive produces the flower |
| What tissue is mesophyll made of? | Ground Tissue |
| What is the formula for photosynthesis? | 6CO2 + 6H2O + light >>>> C6H12O6 + 6O2 |
| What two gasses diffuse in and out of the stomata? | Carbon Dioxide and Oxygen |
| Monocot or Dicot? Vascular tissue is scattered. | Monocot |
| Monocot or Dicot? Vascular tissue is arranged in a ring. | Dicot |
| Which parts of the flower are male? | The anther and filament |
| Which parts of the flower are female? | The ovule, ovary, style, stigma |
| What mineral is needed for nucleic acids, proteins, and chlorophyll? | Nitrogen |
| What mineral is involved in the making of chlorophyll? | Magnesium |