Importance of Plants

Question 1

What are in Plant and Animal cells?

Answer 1

Nucleus, cytoplasm and cell membrane

Question 2

What are only in plant cells?

Answer 2

Cell wall, vacuole and chloroplasts

Question 3

What is a cell wall?

Answer 3

Provides structure and support

Question 4

What is a vacuole?

Answer 4

Stores water and cell sap

Question 5

What is chloroplasts?

Answer 5

Site of photosynthesis

Question 6

What is a detrivore?

Answer 6

Feed on decomposing organisms to obtain energy

Question 6

What is a decomposer?

Answer 6

Eat decomposing organisms and break them down into basic nutrients.

Question 7

What are 4 types of asexual reproduction?

Answer 7

Budding, tubbers, runners and bulbs

Question 8

What is Budding?

Answer 8

Similar to cell division

Question 9

What is Tubbers?

Answer 9

Underground food storage organs that can develop into a plant the following year

Question 10

What is Runners?

Answer 10

Thin sideways stems with plantlets on them that can take root and develop into a new plant

Question 11

What is Bulbs?

Answer 11

Round stems containing the shoot of a new plant. The leaf-like scales provide nourishment.

Question 12

What is the male sex cell of a plant?

Answer 12

Pollen

Question 13

What is the male sex organ of a plant?

Answer 13

Anther

Question 14

What is the female sex cell of a plant?

Answer 14

Ovule

Question 15

What is the female sex organ of a plant?

Answer 15

Ovary

Question 16

What are the 5 types of plant products?

Answer 16

Food, raw materials, medicines, cosmetics and spiritualism

Question 17

What is Food?

Answer 17

Corn, wheat, oats, rice, barley, potatoes, sugar, maize, tomatoes

Question 18

What is Raw Materials

Answer 18

Timber, paper, cotton

Question 19

What is Medicines?

Answer 19

Morphine (Poppies), Aspirin (Willow tree bark), Digitalin (Foxglove), Hemp

Question 20

What is cosmetics?

Answer 20

Cotton, hemp and lavender

Question 21

What is spiritualism?

Answer 21

Hemp, sage and lavender

Question 22

What is pollination?

Answer 22

Pollination is the transfer of pollen to a stigma

Question 23

How can pollen be transferred?

Answer 23

Insects, wind and animals

Question 24

What does a seed require?

Answer 24

Water, warmth and oxygen

Question 25

What is a food store?

Answer 25

Energy for growth

Question 26

What is an embryo?

Answer 26

Develops into a flowering stem

Question 27

What is a seed coat?

Answer 27

Protection

Question 28

What are the 2 methods of Artificial propagation?

Answer 28

Grafting and cuttings

Question 29

What is Cuttings?

Answer 29

Cut a branch from a parent plant, remove all leaves apart from one at the top and plant in a damp compost

Question 30

What is Grafting?

Answer 30

Take a cutting and graft it to the stem of another plant. The cut surfaces grow together

Question 31

What are the 3 chemical nutrients plants need?

Answer 31

Nitrogen, Phosphorus and potassium

Question 32

What is Photosynthesis?

Answer 32

Plants use energy from the sun to create glucose/energy. This can be stored as starch

Question 33

What are the limiting factors of photosynthesis?

Answer 33

Temperature, light intensity and carbon dioxide concentration

Question 34

What is needed for photosynthesis?

Answer 34

Light, water and CO2

Question 35

Where is the chlorophyll?

Answer 35

Inside the chloroplasts

Question 36

What is needed for Germination?

Answer 36

Warmth, Oxygen and Water

Question 37

What raw materials are needed to carry out photosynthesis?

Answer 37

Water and Co2

Question 38

What are the products of photosynthesis?

Answer 38

Glucose and oxygen

Question 39

What can be caused by fertilisers leaking into waterways?

Answer 39

Algal bloom