Plants Flashcards

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Leaves have openings called what? What do they try to conserve? What cells surround the openings?

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Stomata, water, guard cells

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What is the main function of root hairs

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Increase the surface area and allow the root to absorb more water

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What does xylem carry? Which way? Is it living or dead?

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Water and dissolved minerals, upward, dead

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What is a complete flower?

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It has all 4 whorls of flower parts

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What is an incomplete flower?

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It lacks one of the four whorls

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List 2 examples of taproots

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Carrots, radishes

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What insect sees in ultraviolet light?

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Bees

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What plant organs capture light

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Leaves

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List 4 plants used in making sports equipment

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Bolata (golf balls), persimmon (golf club heads), ash ( baseball bats), ebony and ash ( pool cues)

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What does gymnosperm mean

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Naked seed

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What christmas plant is poisonous

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Holly berries and parts of mistletoe

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How many cotyledons do monocots have, dicots

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1, 2

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How many petals do monocots have, dicots

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Multiples of 3. Multiples of 5

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List the 3 main gymnosperm groups which is the most diverse

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Cycads, ginkgoes, conifers, conifers

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What are plant cell walls made of

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Cellulose

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What is a diet of root crops and cereals deficit in

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Amino acids

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What 3 things to flowers use to attract insects

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Their color (petals) , nectar (food), fragrance

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How are fruits eaten by birds used to spread seeds

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The seed isnt digested and us dispersed in a new place

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Name the 3 main plant organs

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Roots, stems, leaves

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What are cycads, what do they look like, when did they dominate earth

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Gymnosperms( a group) , grow in tropics and produce reproductive structures that look like giant pine cones, 225 million years ago (Triassic period)

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What does phloem carry, which way, is if living or dead

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Sugars, up and down, living

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Sepals

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Outermost whorl of leaves, usually green

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Petals

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Second circle of flower parts, usually brightly colored to attract insects

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Filament

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Long, thin structures that support the anther

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Ovary
Hollow structure at the base of pistil that contains the ovules
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Ovule
Female gametophyte that produces the egg
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Pollen grain
Male gametophyte (contains the sperm)
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Anther
Structure where the male gametophytes are produced
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Stigma
Swollen, sticky tip of pistil on which pollen lands and adheres
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Style
Stalk rising from the ovary of a pistil
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Pistil
Female part of the flower, made of 3 parts
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Calyx
All sepals collectively
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Corolla
All petals collectively
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Carpels
All pistils collectively
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List the 3 groups of plants called nonvascular plants (bryophytes) , what do they lack that vascular plants have
Mosses, liverworts, hornworts, | Roots, stems, leaves , xylem, phloem
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What makes up the vascular bundles (veins) in leaves
Xylem and phloem
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Nam the tightly packed column shaped cells in a leaf
Palisade mesophyll
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What is the waterproof covering of the leaf
Cuticle
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What is the formula for photosynthesis
6co2+6h2o+light -c6h12o6+6o2
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Know the parts of the leaf
Look at diagram
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Know the parts of the flower
Look at the flower diagram