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Activity 1 Flashcards

1
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What does plant and other green organisms do?

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they have a capacity to produce oxygen and remove the large amounts of carbon dioxide given off by all living organisms as they respire

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What is greenhouse effect?

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is a heat that is trapped close to the surface of the Earth by “greenhouse gasses”. Heat trapping gasses can be a blanket wrapped around the Earth

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Greenhouse effect has?

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carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxides

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4
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What is plant?

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a source of products

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What are the things that produced by plants?

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condiments (spices), luxuries (perfume)

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6
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Where does medicine and drugs came from?

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they came from plants, fungi, or bacteria

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What is the role of microscopic organisms?

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they play a vital role in recycling the wastes of animal and plant and aid in the building of healthy soils

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What is methane gas?

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a substitution for natural gas

produced from animal manures and decomposed plants

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What is Energy Policy Act of 2005?

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mandates the annual renewable fuel production

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What is Cellulosic Ethanol?

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derived from inedible plant fiber, such as wood chips or switchgrass

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Who is Anton Van Leeuwenhoek?

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the one who invented the microscope

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What is Dendrochronology?

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study of climate change and past events

deals with determining past climates by examining the width and other features of tree rings

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What is algae?

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they not only produce oxygen, but also utilize the waste of carbon dioxide produced by respiration and also produces food

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What is closed system?

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a self-supporting arrangement

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15
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What is botany?

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study of plants

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Greek word of botany?

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botanikos (botanical)
botane (plant or herb)
boskein (to feed)

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French word of botany?

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botanique (botanical)

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18
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Scientists who study plants called?

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botanists

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What is scientific procedure?

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process of experimentation, and the verifying or discarding the information

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What is scientific method?

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procedures of developing and testing hypothesis

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What is hypothesis?

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an unproven explanation of something that has been observed

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What is testing?

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will determine whether it is correct or incorrect

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23
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Scientific method pyramid

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asking question
formulating hypothesis
experiments
developing a theory

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2 forms of good experiment

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variable and control

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what is variable

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a specific aspect that can be changed

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what is control

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sample that remains the same throughout the expermient

27
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what is data

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bits of information

28
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what is principle

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formulation of a useful generalization

29
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what is theory

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group of generalizations that helps us understand something

30
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what is microscope

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an optical instrument used for viewing very small objects, typically magnified several hundred times

31
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what does two convex lenses do

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could magnify tiny objects more than 30 times

32
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Who is a dutch draper

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anton van leeuwenhoek

33
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birth and death of anton van leeuwenhoek?

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1632-1723

34
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What is modern microscopes

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can produce magnifications of more than 200,000 times and are leading almost daily to new discoveries in biology

35
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what is plant anatomy

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concerned with the internal structure of plants

36
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who are the scientific pioneers

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the one who established the plant anatomy

37
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who is marcello malpighi

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who discovered the various tissues in stems and roots

38
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who is nehemiah grew

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who described the structure of wood more precisely than anyone

39
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what is forensic laboratories

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fragments of plant tissues found on clothing or under fingernails to determine where a crime took place

40
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what is heredity

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passing of traits from parents to their offspring

41
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what is paleobotany

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study of plant fossils

42
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what is plant physiology

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concerned with plant “normal” function

43
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who is J.B van Helmont

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the first to demonstrate that plants don’t have the same nutritional needs as animals

44
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what is photosynthetic activity

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the tree absorbed all the water that’s why it became large

45
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what is cloned genes

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units of heredity that are found mostly within the nuclei of cells

46
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who are the taxonomists

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botanists who specialized in the identifying, naming, and classifying the plants

47
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who is carolus linnaeus

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the one who created the system of naming and classifying organisms

48
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what is plant taxonomy

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involves describing, naming and classifying organisms

49
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what is plant systematics

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science of developing methods for grouping organisms

related field, but is broader than taxonomy

50
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what is species plantarum

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linnaeus’ book

51
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what is pteridologists

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the one who studies about the ferns

52
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bryologists

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the one who studies about mosses and plants with similar life cycles

53
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what is plant geography

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study of how and why plants are distributed where they are, interaction with the earth

54
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what is plant ecology

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study of the interaction of plants with one another and with their environment

55
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what is plant morphology

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study of the form and structure of plants

56
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what is genetics

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science of heredity

57
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who is gregor mendel

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the one who discovered the genetics

58
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what is plant breeding

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changing the traits of plants in order to create another desired characteristics

59
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what is genetic engineering

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the transfer of genes from one organisms to another

60
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what is cell biology

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science of cell structure and function, how cell multiply and how their various components perform and integrate a variety of functions

61
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what is another term of cell biology

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cytology

62
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what is electron microscope

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which use a beam of electrons to examine objects on very fine scale

63
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what is economic botany and ethnobotany

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focus on practical uses of plants and plant products

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