Question | Answer |
They make their own food, so they are known as __________. | Autotrophs |
Any change in an organism's surroundings that will cause a reaction is known as a _________. | Stimulus |
The reaction to a stimulus. | Response |
Involves two parents | Sexual reproduction |
Involves one parent and the offspring is identical to that parent. | Asexual reproduction |
The process whereby an organism becomes larger. | Growth |
The process that occurs in the life of an organism that results in the organism becoming more complex structurally. | Development |
The seven levels of classification are ........ | Kingdom phylum class order family genus species |
Closely related organism are in the same ____________. | Genus |
The second name of an organism is the __________ name. | Species |
The two part naming system is know as __________ ____________. | Binomial nomenclature |
An organism's scientific name consists of ______ & _______. | Genus and species |
__________ plants are the largest group in the plant kingdom. | Vascular |
Transports water and minerals | Xylem |
Transports food from the leaves | Phloem |
Stems that are soft and not woody. | Herbaceous |
Plants that don't have a xylem and phloem are these. | Nonvascular plants |
This is how Nonvascular plants transport materials | Cell to cells |
Stored food in a seed | Cotyledon |
Plants reproduce using seeds or _______. | Spores |
The first part of a plant that grows from a seed. | Roots |
Has one food storage area. | Monocots |
They have netlike veins. | Dicots |
They have circular bundles of vascular tissues. | Dicots. |
Parallel veins | Monocots |
Branching roots | Fibrous |
One main root | Taproot |
The part of a flower that attract pollinators. | Petal |
Protects the developing flower | Sepal |
The reproductive structure of a plant. | Flower |
The male reproductive structure of a flower. | Stamen |
The female reproductive structure of a flower. | Pistil |
The parts of the stamen. | Filament and anther |
The parts of the pistil. | Stigma, style, and ovary. |
This is where pollen is produced. | Anther |
The sticky part of the pistil. | Stigma |
The early stage of seed growth. | Germination. |
The ovule develop into this after it's fertilized. | Seed |
The ovary becomes this. | Fruit |
Underground stems | Tubers |
The food making process | Photosynthesis |
The loss of water in a plant. | Transpiration |
When oxygen is used to break down food for energy. | Cellular respiration. |
A period of time when growth or activity of a plant or seed stop due to changes in temperature or amount of water. | Dormancy |
A plant's response to light. | Phototropism |
A plant's response to water. | Hydrotropism |
A plant's response to touch. | Thigmotropism |
A plant's response to gravity. | Gravitropism |
These causes disease ion plants. | Fungi |
Fungal diseases are........ | Corn smut, grain mold, wheat rust, and Dutch elm disease. |