Plants

Question 0

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

Answer 0

Stomata, water, guard cells

Question 1

What is the main function of root hairs

Answer 1

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

Question 2

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

Answer 2

Water and dissolved minerals, upward, dead

Question 3

What is a complete flower?

Answer 3

It has all 4 whorls of flower parts

Question 4

What is an incomplete flower?

Answer 4

It lacks one of the four whorls

Question 5

List 2 examples of taproots

Answer 5

Carrots, radishes

Question 6

What insect sees in ultraviolet light?

Answer 6

Bees

Question 7

What plant organs capture light

Answer 7

Leaves

Question 8

List 4 plants used in making sports equipment

Answer 8

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

Question 9

What does gymnosperm mean

Answer 9

Naked seed

Question 10

What christmas plant is poisonous

Answer 10

Holly berries and parts of mistletoe

Question 11

How many cotyledons do monocots have, dicots

Answer 11

1, 2

Question 12

How many petals do monocots have, dicots

Answer 12

Multiples of 3. Multiples of 5

Question 13

List the 3 main gymnosperm groups which is the most diverse

Answer 13

Cycads, ginkgoes, conifers, conifers

Question 14

What are plant cell walls made of

Answer 14

Cellulose

Question 15

What is a diet of root crops and cereals deficit in

Answer 15

Amino acids

Question 16

What 3 things to flowers use to attract insects

Answer 16

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

Question 17

How are fruits eaten by birds used to spread seeds

Answer 17

The seed isnt digested and us dispersed in a new place

Question 18

Name the 3 main plant organs

Answer 18

Roots, stems, leaves

Question 19

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

Answer 19

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

Question 20

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

Answer 20

Sugars, up and down, living

Question 21

Sepals

Answer 21

Outermost whorl of leaves, usually green

Question 22

Petals

Answer 22

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

Question 23

Filament

Answer 23

Long, thin structures that support the anther

Question 24

Ovary

Answer 24

Hollow structure at the base of pistil that contains the ovules

Question 25

Ovule

Answer 25

Female gametophyte that produces the egg

Question 26

Pollen grain

Answer 26

Male gametophyte (contains the sperm)

Question 27

Anther

Answer 27

Structure where the male gametophytes are produced

Question 28

Stigma

Answer 28

Swollen, sticky tip of pistil on which pollen lands and adheres

Question 29

Style

Answer 29

Stalk rising from the ovary of a pistil

Question 30

Pistil

Answer 30

Female part of the flower, made of 3 parts

Question 31

Calyx

Answer 31

All sepals collectively

Question 32

Corolla

Answer 32

All petals collectively

Question 33

Carpels

Answer 33

All pistils collectively

Question 34

List the 3 groups of plants called nonvascular plants (bryophytes) , what do they lack that vascular plants have

Answer 34

Mosses, liverworts, hornworts,

Roots, stems, leaves , xylem, phloem

Question 35

What makes up the vascular bundles (veins) in leaves

Answer 35

Xylem and phloem

Question 36

Nam the tightly packed column shaped cells in a leaf

Answer 36

Palisade mesophyll

Question 37

What is the waterproof covering of the leaf

Answer 37

Cuticle

Question 38

What is the formula for photosynthesis

Answer 38

6co2+6h2o+light -c6h12o6+6o2

Question 39

Know the parts of the leaf

Answer 39

Look at diagram

Question 40

Know the parts of the flower

Answer 40

Look at the flower diagram