7th Science Plants Outline

Question 1

What are the seven characteristics of plants?

Answer 1

1. Eukaryotic cells
2. Plants cells contain chloroplasts and chlorophyll
3. Multicellular
4. Size varies -very small to very large
5. Cuticle - waxy protective layer on leaves, stems and flowers
6. Plant cells have cell walls made of cellulose
7. Producers - aka autogroph

Question 2

Plant classifications are?

Answer 2

1. Phyla are called Divisions
2. Binomial nomenclature
3. Genus species

Question 3

To move things from one place to another?

Answer 3

Transport

Question 4

Composed of tubelike cells that transport water and nutrients to plants?

Answer 4

Vascular Tissue

Question 5

Carries water and dissolved nutrients from roots to stem?

Answer 5

Xylem

Question 6

Carries dissolved sugars throughout plant?

Answer 6

Phloem

Question 7

Way in which water and nutrients move from cell to cell in mosses?

Answer 7

Osmosis and Diffusion

Question 8

What type of plants can be described as:

1. lack vascular tissue
2. osmosis and diffusion
3. moist environments
4. DO NOT have roots, stems or leaves
5. have rhizoids
6. spores?

Answer 8

Nonvascular Plants

Question 9

What type of plants can be described as:

1. 90% of plants
2. have vascular tissue - xylem and phloem
3. have roots, stems, and leaves
4. all environments
5. small to large in size
6. spores and seeds ?

Answer 9

Vascular Plant

Question 10

Daughter cell produced from a haploid structure?

Answer 10

Spores

Question 11

A plant embryo, its food supply and a protective covering?

Answer 11

Seed

Question 12

Leaves of ferns?

Answer 12

Frond

Question 13

A structure that anchors a nonvascular plant to a surface?

Answer 13

Rhizoid

Question 14

A group of similar types of cells the work together to carry out specific tasks?

Answer 14

Tissue

Question 15

Vascular plants are classified by reproduction. Name the two types and explain difference.

Answer 15

1. Vascular Seedless Plants - use spores to reproduce

2. Vascular Seed Plants - use seeds to reproduce

Question 16

Name some examples of Vascular Seedless Plants.

Answer 16

Ferns, horsetail, club mosses

Question 17

Name some examples of Vascular Seed Plants.

Answer 17

Redwood trees, azalea, gardenias, ryegrass, clover, carrots, and squash

Question 18

What do stems do?

Answer 18

1. connect roots to leaves
2. support branches and leaves
3. contain vascular tissue
4. transport water, minerals and food.

Question 19

How are stems classified?

Answer 19

1. Herbaceous - soft and green

2. Woody - stiff usually not green

Question 20

What vascular tissue transport water and nutrients from roots to leaves?

Answer 20

Xylem

Question 21

What vascular tissue transports dissolved sugars from leaves to roots?

Answer 21

Phleom

Question 22

What is a layer to tissue that produces new vascular tissue and grows between xylem and phleom?

Answer 22

Cambium

Question 23

What can be woody or herbaceous and trail on ground or climb a structure?

Answer 23

Vines

Question 24

What are modified stem with sharp pointed end?

Answer 24

Thorns

Question 25

What is the major site of photosynthesis and cellular respiration?

Answer 25

Leaves

Question 26

What are the top and bottom layers of leaves called?

Answer 26

Epidermal Cells

Question 27

What is the waxy, protective layer on leaves, stems and flowers AND reduce amount of water evaporating from plant leaf called?

Answer 27

Cuticle

Question 28

What does this describe: 1. small opening in the epidermal layer of leaves 2. opens to allow carbon dioxide, oxygen and water vapor to pass though. 3. have 2 guard cells around it to control its size?

Answer 28

Stoma (singular) ot Stomata (plural)

Question 29

What does this describe: 1. below upper epidermis 2. main site of photosynthesis

Answer 29

Palisade Mesophyll Cell

Question 30

What does this describe: 1. below palisade mesophyll cells 2. enables gasses to diffuse throughout a leaf?

Answer 30

Spongy Mesophyll Cell

Question 31

What does this describe: 1. contain diploid plant embryo 2. food supply for embryo 3. hard outer covering?

Answer 31

Seeds

Question 32

What are haploid structures?

Answer 32

Spores

Question 33

How are seeds dispersed?

Answer 33

Seeds are carried by water, wind, and animals or humans

Question 34

What can be described as: 1. seeds produced in fruit 2. all produce flowers 3. almost all food we eat comes from plants in this group?

Answer 34

Angiosperms

Question 35

What can be described as: 1. seeds produced in cone 2. flowerless?

Answer 35

Gymnosperms

Question 36

Name some examples of angiosperms.

Answer 36

Tulips, roses, grasses, peach trees, pecan trees

Question 37

Name some examples of gymnosperms.

Answer 37

Conifers like pine trees and redwood trees, cycads, gingkoes gnetophytes

Question 38

Angiosperms are classified into what two groups?

Answer 38

Monocot and Dicot

Question 39

What type of angiosperms can be described as: 1. leaves are narrow with parallel veins 2. flower parts in multiples of 3 3. vascular tissue in bundles scattered 4. one cotyledon?

Answer 39

Monocot

Question 40

What type of angiosperms can be described as: 1. leaf veins are branched 2. flower parts in multiples of 4 or 5 3. vascular tissue in bundles in rings 4. two cotyledon?

Answer 40

Dicot

Question 41

How are plant root classified?

Answer 41

1. Taproots 2. Fibrous roots 3. Modified roots

Question 42

What is a main root that grows straight down deep into the ground?

Answer 42

Taproot

Question 43

Name some examples of taproots.

Answer 43

Carrots, pine trees

Question 44

What is a many threadlike roots of equal length that spread out through the soil forming a mat?

Answer 44

Fibrous roots

Question 45

Name some examples of fibrous roots.

Answer 45

Tomatoes, pansies

Question 46

What is a tubers?

Answer 46

Modified root

Question 47

Name an example of a modified root.

Answer 47

Potato

Question 48

Species of plants that are indigenous or naturalized to a given area?

Answer 48

Native Plants

Question 49

An introduced, alien, or exotic species is a species living outside its native range?

Answer 49

Nonnative Plants

Question 50

Nonnative plants thriving outside cultivation, expanding into natural areas and disrupting native plant communities?

Answer 50

Invasive Plants