ch:11 botany

Question 1

name 3 things in this classroom that are made from plants.

Answer 1

Pencil, paper, book

Question 2

What is a fiber?

Answer 2

a thread or a filament from a plant tissue

Question 3

What is phloem tissue?

Answer 3

plant tissue that conducts the transport of food throughout the plant.

Question 4

What is wood?

Answer 4

a hard fibrous material that forms the main substance of the truck

Question 5

what is xylem tissue?

Answer 5

plant tissue that transports water and dissolved minerals throughout the plant.

Question 6

What makes fibers a white color?

Answer 6

The most valuable fibers are the ones made of pure cellulose (plant sugar) and white in color.

Question 7

whats a sclerenchyma fiber cells

Answer 7

elongated, thick walled, dead plant cells

Question 8

What makes fibers a brown color?

Answer 8

Lignin

Question 9

9. What method do they use to extract cotton fibers from the cotton

Answer 9

Ginning

Question 10

10. What is Ginning?

Answer 10

the process of removing seed fibers. Derived from the word engine, “gin” means machine.

Question 11

11. What are the 3 stages of extracting fibers from stems?

Answer 11

Retting, scutching, hackling

Question 12

12. What is retting?

Answer 12

The first process after harvesting a plant to extract the plant fiber. Workers soak the plant stems in water for a period of time until all of the unwanted plant material has decayed.

Question 13

13. What is Scutching?

Answer 13

The process after retting. This is the beating and scraping of the fibers to remove the remaining unwanted tissue, such as the xylem, which adheres to the fibers.

Question 14

14. What is Hackling?

Answer 14

the process of aligning the separate fibers in vertical pins to detangle them

Question 15

15. What process is used to extract fibers from leaves?

Answer 15

decorticating

Question 16

16. What is decorticating?

Answer 16

a method used for leaf fibers. Workers crush the fleshy leaf material and scrape the non-fibrous materials.

Question 17

17. What are the 3 main plants we get surface fibers from?

Answer 17

Coconut, cotton, Kappok

Question 18

Coconut is in what family?

Answer 18

Arecaceae

Question 19

19. What process do they use to extract coconut fibers from the fruit?

Answer 19

retting

Question 20

20. How long do they Rett coconuts?

Answer 20

10 months

Question 21

21. Name 2 things coconut fibers can be used for.

Answer 21

Ropes, matting

Question 22

22. Give the common name for the cotton that is native to India and Pakistan.

Answer 22

Tree cotton

Question 23

23. Give the common name for the cotton that is native to Africa and Arabia.

Answer 23

Levant cotton

Question 24

24. Give one common name for the cotton that is native to the Americas, this cotton also makes up 90% of the worlds cotton.

Answer 24

Upland cotton

Question 25

25. Give one common name for the cotton that is native to the Americas, this cotton provides the finest quality cotton threads and is popular in Egypt.

Answer 25

sea land cotton

Question 26

26. Which to cottons are from the old world? | Levant cotton and tree cotton

Answer 26

Levant cotton and tree cotton

Question 27

27. Which to cottons are from the new world?

Answer 27

Upland cotton and pima cotton

Question 28

28. What is a Staple?

Answer 28

Cotton hairs

Question 29

29. What is the difference between Linter and Lint?

Answer 29

Linder- is short think hair and lint- long soft hair

Question 30

30. Who invented the cotton gin?

Answer 30

Eli Whitney

Question 31

31. What did the cotton gin begin?

Answer 31

Industrial revolution.

Question 32

32. How many pairs of jeans can you get from one bale of cotton?

Answer 32

325

Question 33

33. Which spikey tree provides surface fibers?

Answer 33

Kappok

Question 34

What are Bast fibers?

Answer 34

soft fibers derived from thick-walled phloem cells they may range from six to fifteen feet long.

Question 35

35. What are the 3 Bast fibers we talked about in class?

Answer 35

Jute, linen, hemp

Question 36

36. Which is the second most produced fiber in the world? This is a type of Bast fiber.

Answer 36

jute

Question 37

37. Give one example of something made of Jute fiber.

Answer 37

Twine

Question 38

38. What fiber did Egyptians wrap their mummies in?

Answer 38

linen

Question 39

Is linen strong?

Answer 39

no

Question 40

40. Give on example of something made of linin.

Answer 40

Clothing

Question 41

41. Why is linen so expensive?

Answer 41

Such a long process

Question 42

42. Which fiber makes up the Declaration of Independence?

Answer 42

Hemp

Question 43

43. What are Hard fibers?

Answer 43

are extracted from the leaves of certain plants with long parallel veins. Also known as leaf fibers.

Question 44

44. What are the 2 hard fibers we talked about in class?

Answer 44

Sisal and abaca

Question 45

45. Which fiber is extracted from the Agave leaves?

Answer 45

Sisal

Question 46

46. Which fiber is extracted from the banana plant?

Answer 46

Abaca

Question 47

47. Name two items made from banana fibers.

Answer 47

Coffee filters and tea bags