Chapter 21 Vocabulary

Question 1

Perannial

Answer 1

plants can for several years and usall produce flowers seeds yearly

Question 2

biennial

Answer 2

plants life span of two years

Question 3

annual

Answer 3

plant that completes its life span in one growing season or less

Question 4

cone

Answer 4

A structure that contains the male or female reproductive structures of cycads and other gymnosperm plants

Question 5

cotyledon

Answer 5

structures that either store food or help absorb food for the tiny sporophyte

Question 6

sorus

Answer 6

clusters of sporangia usually found on the surface of fern fronds

Question 7

sporangium

Answer 7

fern spores in a structure

Question 8

rhizome

Answer 8

thick underground stem

Question 9

epiphyte

Answer 9

plant that lives anchored to an object or to another plant

Question 10

strobilus

Answer 10

a compact cluster of spore-bearing structures

Question 11

thallose

Answer 11

leafy

Question 12

seed

Answer 12

plant structure that contains an embryo, nutrients and a protective coat

Question 13

nonvascular plants

Answer 13

lack specialized transport tissues

Question 14

vascular plants

Answer 14

plants with true vascular tissue

Question 15

vascular tissue

Answer 15

specialized transport tissue

Question 16

stomata

Answer 16

Small openings on the underside of a leaf through which oxygen and carbon dioxide can move