Chapter 17

Question 1

Four types of Plants

Answer 1

Non-Vascular
Vascular Seedless
Naked seeds
Angiosperms

Question 2

What is autorophic

Answer 2

Energy from sun via photosynthesis
minerals & water from soil

Question 3

Any cell can become the whole plant

Answer 3

Totipotent

Question 4

What is Alternation of Generations

Answer 4

Life cycle with diploid and haploid stages

Question 5

Haploid stage

Answer 5

Gametophyte

Question 6

Diploid stage

Answer 6

Sporophyte

Question 7

When did Plants first evolve

Answer 7

475 million years

Question 8

What did plants have to do to adapt to land

Answer 8

Conserve water (cuticle)
Getting nutrients and water (roots)
Reproduce (pollen, seeds, flowers)

Question 9

Two forms of vascular tissue

Answer 9

Xylem (water)
Phloem (sugars)

Question 10

Mosses phylum

Answer 10

Bryophyta

Question 11

Fern Phylum

Answer 11

Pterophyta

Question 12

When did Ferns appear

Answer 12

380 million years

Question 13

Conifer Phylum

Answer 13

Coniferophyta

Question 14

When did Gymnosperms arrive

Answer 14

365 million years ago

Question 15

Different Gymnosperms

Answer 15

Cycadophyta
Ginkgophyta
Coniferophyta
Gnetophyta

Question 16

Arrival of Cycads

Answer 16

250 million

Question 17

When did Ginkgo arrive

Answer 17

270 million

Question 18

3 Gneophyta

Answer 18

Gnetum
Ephedra
Welwitschia

Question 19

Coniferophyta arrive

Answer 19

300 million

Question 20

Angiosperm phylum

Answer 20

Anthophyta

Question 21

When did angiosperms arrive

Answer 21

180-200 million years ago