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PLANTS

PLANT SYSTEMS TEST

QuestionAnswer
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
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