Question | Answer |
What do all plants have that allow them to go through a process using the sun's energy and carbon dioxide? What is the process? | Chlorophyll, photosynthesis. |
Are plants consumers decomposers or producers? | Producers. |
What are plants' cell walls made of? | Cellulose. |
Are plants many celled, or single celled? If they are many celled, what are the three MAIN types of cells in the plant? | Many celled. Root, stem and leave cells. |
What is the most important type of plant cell? | The reproductive cell. |
Can plants move from place to place? | No, they are immobile. |
Plants are ______ (Hint: Eu, eu, eu!) | Eukaryotic. |
Seedless plants are also known as... | Bryophytes. |
Seedless plants do not have... | Roots, stems or leaves. |
How do seedless plants reproduce? | With spores. |
What is a spore? | A simple, reproductive cell. |
Seedless plants are usually a_______cells thick because they absorb all needed materials such as ____ and ______from the environment. | Few, water, minerals. |
What is the pioneer species? | The first to grow in an area, especially after devastation. |
Examples of Seedless plants: | Mosses and Liverworts. |
Seedless vascular plants contain _____ tissue. | Vascular. |
Seedless vascular plants are also known as... | Tracheophytes. |
How do seedless vascular plants reproduce? | With sperms. |
Because these plants have support structures, they can grow very large. What type of seedless plant is this? | Vascular. |
Seed plants contain ______ tissue, or a group of tube-like colls that carry food, water and minerals throughout the plant. | Vascular. |
How do seed plants reproduce? Explain. | With seeds. In plants, a seed is the fertilized egg that results from the joining of a sperm cell and an egg cell. |
What are the three main things that seed plants have? | Roots, stems and leaves. |
What are the two kinds of seed plants? | Gymnosperms and Angiosperms. |
The seeds of gymnosperms often grow on _____. What are the two types of these. Describe them. | Cones. Male: Small and contains pollen. Female: Large and contain ovules which become seeds. |
What is a gymnosperm that cannot lose their leaves all at one time? | Evergreens. |
Some examples are pines, spruces, sequoias and firs. These are plants that produce seeds in cones. What are they? | Conifers. |
What are the records for these conifers? 1. Bristlecone pine: ___ 2. Giant Redwood: ___ | 1. 4000 years old 2. 300 feet tall. |
Conifers mostly supply what industries? | Wood and lumber. |
What are three other gymnosperms? | Larches, cycads and gingkoes. |
What does gymnosperm mean and why? | "Naked seed" because the seeds are not enclosed special structures such as fruits. |
What does Angiosperm mean and why? | "Seed in a container" because the seeds are enclosed in special structures called fruits, angiosperm seeds are more protected than gymnosperm seeds! |
All ________sperms have flowers. | Angio |
Define deciduous | They lose all their leaves at once... ANGIOSPERMS! |
_________make up most of the plants living on Earth today! | Angiosperms. |
Common Angiosperms are... : | Daisies, roses, dandelions, tomatoes, daffodils and maple trees. |
Define cotyledon | The food storing part of the seed that is used by the developing plant until it can make its own food. |
If there is one cotyledon it is a..... | Monocot. |
If there are 2 cotyledons then it is a..... | Dicot. |
The veins in monocots are ________ while the veins in Dicots ________ | Parallel, branch out. |
The flowers in monocots petals are multiples of ___ and in dicots ___ | 3. 4 or 5. |
In monocots, the vascular bundles or ________ are scattered. | the groups of tubes that carry food, water and minerals throughout the plant. |
Examples of monocots: | Lilies, tulips, grass and corn. |
The vascular bundles are arranged in what way is a dicot? | A ring. |
Examples of dicots: | peanuts, daisies, petunias and lima beans. |
THE MOST IMPORTANT USE FOR SEED PLANTS IS TO MAKE FOOD FOR OTHER ORGANISMS. | THE MOST IMPORTANT USE FOR SEED PLANTS IS TO MAKE FOOD FOR OTHER ORGANISMS. |
The most important plants for HUMANS are: | Wheat, rice, corn and potatoes. |
Animals get their energy from plants by... | 1. Eating them directly. 2. They can eat organisms that ate other plants. (THE FOOD CHAIN!) |
What are six uses for plants other then food? | 1. Produce oxygen through phtosynthesis. 2. Flavor food/spices. 3. For making clothes (cotton/flax) 4. For wood and paper products. 5. Medicines. 6. Perfumes. |