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Intro to Plants
Vocabulary and categories of Plants
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Four things that plants need - | Water, soil or nutrients, carbon dioxide, space to grow. |
| Three things seeds need to germinate | Warmth, water, air |
| What does germinate mean? | The early sprouting or growing of a seed into a plant. |
| Vascular means | Has tubes - grows tall |
| Non-vascular means | NO tubes - grows very short |
| What is xylem? | Takes water UP the plant. xylem UP |
| What is phloem? | Takes food (glucose) from the leaves down the plant. Phloem down! |
| Non vascular plant has NO- | NO stems, leaves, roots since there are NO tubes |
| Vascular plants have - | Regular stems, leaves, roots since they have tubes |
| Non-vascular plants grow (tall or short) | Short |
| Vascular plants grow (tall or short) | Tall |
| Moss, Liverworts, and Hornworts are all examples of what category of plants? | Non-Vascular |
| Three examples of NON-VASCULAR PLANTS are - | Moss, Liverworts, Hornworts |
| Special roots that anchor a plant into the soil, rocks, or even trees are called? | Rhizoids |
| Non Vascular plants use this to reproduce? | Spores |
| Vascular Seedless plants use this to reproduce? | Spores |
| Three examples of VASCULAR SEEDLESS plants would be - | Ferns, horsetails,, clubmoss. Cattails would be another example. |
| There are two categories of Seed Plants. They are - | Gymnosperms and angiosperms |
| What is a gymnosperm? What would two examples be? | Plant that reproduces with a cone. Pine tree, cedar, evergreen would be an example. |
| What is an angiosperm? What would be an example? | A plant that reproduces with flowers. Remember, Gym give Angie flowers. Example - roses, daisies, apple tree |
| Since moss does not have tube, how does it get its water and food? | Diffusion - for food Osmosis - for water |
| That are the three parts of a seed? | Seed coat - protects the seed Cotyledon - food for the embryo Embryo - baby plant |
| What are three ways seeds spread? | Wind, water, animals/birds, insects, |
| What are the two parts that make up the stamen part of a flower? | Stamen is the mail part - anther and filament |
| What er the three parts that make up the pistal? | Pistil is the female part of the flower. Made up of stigma, style, ovary. |
| What is a fruit? | A ripened ovary of a plant |
| Pollen is really plant - | sperm |
| What are sepals - | Small leaflike structures just under the flower. It protects the bud, before it opens. |
| What does phototropism mean? | Plant leaves bend towards the light to get maximum light for photosyntheses |
| What is thigmotropism? | Responds to touch |
| What is gravitropism? | Responds to gravity. Stem will bend to the light. |
| What is a coniferous forest? | A forest made up of pine trees and evergreens - WITH CONES |
| What is a deciduous forest? | A forest made up of trees that loose their leaves in the fall. |
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