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Units 1-4 Flashcards

1
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What is a vascular plant.

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It has conducting tissues for transport of food and water (xylem- water and phloem-food, sugars)

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What is a non-vascular plant

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It is lacking vascular tissue has no veins. Organisms are small as they are limited in size due to lack of vascular tissue. Specialized cells must absorb their water. These are not woody plants.

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What is a woody plant

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It has bark growth, rings and buds. Observable growth rings, and buds (organs containing immature leaves, flowers, ect.) perennial lifespan (living more than three years)

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4
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What is a herbaceous plant?

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Nonwoody none of the above visible present above ground stem does not thicken each year, but dies back of variety of my life spans. 

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5
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What is a tree?

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Matures over 5 m. Height fits, but it has several stems. Leaves: broad leaves or needle leaves. Plants deciduous or evergreen.

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6
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What is a tall shrub? 

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Amateurs to 1.3- 5 m. Leaves are most typically broadleaved a few needleleaf mostly deciduous.

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What is a medium shrub? 

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They matured to 0.5 to 1.3 m leafs: broad leaves a few needle leaves, mostly deciduous.

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What is a dwarf shrub? 

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They mature up to 15 cm. They are broadleaved a few needle-leafs are deciduous or evergreen.

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9
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What is a forb?

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Showy flowers that are broadleaved, solid, or spongy pith, mostly net veined, a few are parallel or palmate veined

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10
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What is a grass? 

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Non-showy flowers, parallel vein leaves, round hollow stems, nodes present, where the stem is swollen

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What is a grasslike? 

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Looks like a grass with non-showy flowered, parallel veins, narrow leafs. The stem is solid, and nodes are absent. 

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12
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What is a sedge grass like?

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Solid stems with an edge

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13
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What is a rush grass like

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Solid stems and round 

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14
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What is pteridophyte

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Vascular only reproduces by spores (ferns, horsetails, club-mosses)

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What is bryophyte

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Non-vascular, spore, producing plants, (mosses, and liverworts)

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16
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What is morphology?

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The study of visible plant organs, which include flower, stem leaf bud and root 

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17
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Define root

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Attached to group or a support, conducts water and nutrients

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18
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Define stem

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Supporting structure for leafs contains vascular system, -xylem and phloem

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19
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Define shoot

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Aerial portion of axis consist of beliefs and stem 

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20
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Define leaf

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Composed of petiole and blade

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21
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Define bud

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Immature plant tissue used for identification of woody plant samples. Herbaceous plants have buds that exist as growing points, and are not clearly visible. 

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22
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Define petiole

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Secondary stem that attaches blade to stem

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23
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Define blade

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The photosynthesizing components

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24
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Define axil

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Upper angle between petiole and stem

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25
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Define node

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Point of leaf attachment, interval of stem between node in the internode

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26
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Define mid vein

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A vein in the centre of the blade actually the xylem and phloem 

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27
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Define apex

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Tip of the blade

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28
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Define base

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The bottom of the blade

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29
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Define margin

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The edge of the blade

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30
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What is leaf arrangement

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The pattern of how the leaf is arranged on the stem the three possibilities are alternate opposite in whorled

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31
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What is leaf attachment?

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Refers to how the blade is attached to the sternum. With a petiole is called petiole and without a petiole is sessile.

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32
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What is net veined (pinnate)

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With smaller veins, extending towards the leafs margin, this is the most common

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33
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What is palmate?

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Lee Faines, radiant from one point award towards leaf margins and tips (maple leaves) 

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34
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What is parallel veined

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When veins start at the base of the blade and extend towards the Apex or Tip of the blade. Like a lily.


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35
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What is a compound leaf?

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It has a petiole, rachis and leaflets

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36
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What is a rachis

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The central axis in which the leaflets are attached

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37
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What is a lichen

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Not a plant

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38
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What is a gymnosperm

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It is vascular, flowering seed, bearing over exposed, important carbon storing plants

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39
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What is an angiosperm

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It is vascular, flowering seed, bearing seed protected in an ovary

40
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Define botany

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The science of the study of plants and plant biology

41
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Define multicellular

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Comprised of more than one cell that interacts to carry out life processes 

42
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Define embryo

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A young stage developed from a fertilized egg within a mothers

43
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Define chlorophyll

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Pigment in chloroplast 

44
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Define cellulose

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A complex carbohydrate of glucose units

45
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Define photosynthesis

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Turning sun energy into useable energy 

46
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What are the characteristics that define a plant are these characteristics absolute? 

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Viennation arrangement, attachment, and complexity 

47
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Define autotrophic

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Needs only carbon dioxide or carbonate as a source of carbon and a simple inorganic nitrogen compound of metabolic synthesis 

48
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Define growth forms and what are they

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Growth forms are easily observable, superficial characteristics that help place plants into a structural category without knowing the plant species this description by growth forms helps in grouping inventory and mapping of vegetation. The growth forms are trees, shrubs, forbs , and grasses. 

49
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List of vascular, growth forms

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Flowers, leaves, buds, stem and roots

50
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What group of plant is vascular seed producing with seeds enclosed

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Gymnosperm

51
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What plant group has seeds not exposed?

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Angiosperm

52
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What group of plants is non-vascular and spore producing

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Bryophyte

53
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What plant group is vascular and spore producing

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Pteridophyte

54
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Name oldest to youngest of the four main groups in kingdom Plantae

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Bryophyte, pteridophyte, gymnosperm and angiosperm 

55
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Define binomial nomenclature

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Two terms are used to denote a species of living organisms. The first one indicates the genus and the second is this specific epithet

56
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Define herbarium

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Collection of bc plants. Largest bryophyte collection in Canada

57
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What’s is a simple leave

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Composed of blade and petiole

58
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Define veins

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Carries water

59
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Define leaflet

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A leaflet is part of a compound leave. Though it resembles an entire leaf. A leaflet is not born on a main plant, stem or branch as a leaf is. 

60
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What factors may cause morphology to very within the same species

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Stage of growth, environment and natural variation

61
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What are the four aquatic growth forms?

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Floating attached, floating un attached submerged an emergent 

62
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Evergreen vs deciduous

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Deciduous leaves are present for only the growing season spring and summer. Evergreen leaves persist for more than one season typically many of years of leaves are seen. 

63
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What are the four artificial plants?

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Parasitic, carnivorous, weed and crop

64
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Define monocot

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All monocots are parallel veins, sessile, forbs, grasses, and grass likes

65
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Define dicots

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Netveins or palmate veins, palmate veins, petiolate usually or sessile, and includes broadleaf trees and shrubs

66
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Define emergent

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Root and lower plant parts submerged only


67
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Define submersed

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All plant parts underwater, except flower

68
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Floating attached

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Leafs float on the surface route anchored in soil

69
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Floating unattached

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Leaves float on surface roots hang under surface 

70
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What are six or lichen growth forms 

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Crust, scale, leaf club, shrub and hair 

71
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What creates bark?

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Cork cambium 

72
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What are the general botany specializations?

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Morphology, taxonomy, ecology, and geology anatomy, physiology, ethnobotany, genetics, paleobotany, molecular biology, etc.

73
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What are the applied botany fields? 

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Agronomy, forestry, restoration, monitoring, habitat, management, resource management, wetland, restoration ecosystem management plant breeding, reclamation, pest management, and conservation 

74
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What is general botany? (Morphology)

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Study of visible plant structures, and plant cycles 

75
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What is the oldest branch of botany?

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Taxonomy

76
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Define abiotic

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In organic non-living compounds, including radiation climate, atmosphere, soil, geography, fire

77
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Define biotic

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Living components

78
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What is the function of a plant (producer/consumer and autotroph or heterotroph)

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Producer an autotroph

79
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What is the function of a herbivore (producer/consumer and autotroph or heterotroph)

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Primary consumer and heterotroph

80
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What is the function of a carnivore (producer/consumer and autotroph or heterotroph)

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Secondary consumer and heterotroph

81
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What is the function of a decomposer (producer/consumer and autotroph or heterotroph)

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Three levels, consumer, and heterotroph

82
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What are the four levels of ecological organization?

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Population, community, ecosystem, and geography

83
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How do plants play a role in maintaining earths climate and atmospheric balance

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Plants maintain a delicate chemical balance between earth and the atmosphere by producing oxygen, consuming carbon dioxide, and by releasing water vapour by transpiration 

84
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What to abiotic factors affect, vegetation communities, the most

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Temperature and precipitation 

85
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Ecological servicing

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Energy flow cycling, nutrient, and carbon and primary productivity

86
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Ecological regulation

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Soil, stable, ability and formation, carbon, sequestration, water, quality, and quantity and climate modification and control climate change: natural the solutions

87
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What is a meristem

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A region of plant tissue found chiefly at the growing type of roots and shoots in the cambium consisting of actively dividing cells forming new tissue 

88
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How do you woody plans protect themselves from insects?

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The phenolic compound is an insect repellent 

89
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What is the primary grow in trees?

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The length.

90
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What is the secondary growth

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Increase in width and girth

91
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What is the inner bark?

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The phloem

92
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What are growth rings in the tree called

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Xylem

93
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What is the difference between hardwood and sapwood?

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Hartwood is dead and sapwood is living both are the xylem

94
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What is Spring growth trees?

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Light coloured fast growing large sells Water filled

95
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What is summer growth trees?

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Dark rings, slow growth cells and less water

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