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Science: Plants and Ecology Flashcards

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_ plant

Leaves produce food
Roots absorb water through soil
Tissues transport water and nutrients through stem

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Vascular plants

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Special tissue plants use transports water and minerals

Transport sugars through plants

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Xylem

Phloem

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Male reproductive organ on flower

Female reproductive organ on a flower

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Stamen

Pistil

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Pollen stored in

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Anther

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Ovary of the flower

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Carpel

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Receives the pollen ( male reproductive cell)

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Stigma

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Part of seed that provides nourishment for the plant embryo

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Endosperm

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Plant with only one embryo in each seed

2 examples

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Monocot

Corn
Wheat

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Plants with two embryos on each seed

Ex:

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Dicot

Beans

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Nonflowering plants that use seeds to reproduce, carried by wind

Ex:

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Gymnosperms (naked seeds)

Confiers - pine , cedar , redwood

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Single celled reproductive body

Ex: ferns and mosses

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Spores

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Attractive nature encourages animals to pollinate the plant

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Angiosperms

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5 levels of ecology(small to large)

Old
People
Catch
Easy 
Break
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Organisms
Populations
Communities
Ecosystems 
Biosphere
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Organisms place in the food web called

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Trophic

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Development and changes that occur during colonization of a new habitat such as newly exposed rock

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Primary succession

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Changes to previously colonized habitat tat has been disrupted but events like forest fires

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Secondary succession

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Collection of plant and animal communities that exist within specific climates * living features only (biotic)
* can exist across continents

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Biomes

Tropical rainforests

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_ biome

Defined by distinct patterns in temp and rainfall

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Terrestrial biomes

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_ biome

Defined by type of water and organisms

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Aquatic biome

20
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_ trees lose leaves in winter

_ keep leaves year round

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Deciduous

Evergreen

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Primary consumer

Secondary consumer

Tertiary consumer

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Herbivores

Carnivores consume herbivores

Carnivores consume carnivores

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Aquatic biome - river meets ocean

Shrubland biome

Tropical grassland, nutrient poor soil

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Estuary

Chaparral

Savanna

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