Chapter 21 Flashcards

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1
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Forest take up _______ from the air and release _________.

A
  • Carbon Dioxide

- Oxygen

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2
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Deforestation had far reaching environmental effects including:

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-increased erosion and climate change

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3
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Plants evolved from:

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Green algae(Charophytes)

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4
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What are plants

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-Embryophytes

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5
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Key adaptations that allowed plants to move into dry habitats include:

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-a waterproof cuticle with stomata and internal pipelines of vascular tissue reinforced by login

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6
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Stomata open and clase to…..

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balance demands for water conservation and gas exchange with air outside the plant

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7
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Internal vascular tissue

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(Xylem and Phloem) are the vascular tissues that transport water and nutrients though a plant body

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8
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Vascular tissue are reinforced by

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Lignin -material that stiffens cell walls or vascular plants and helps plants stand upright/help them branch

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9
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Plant life cycle include 2 multicellular bodies:

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the HAPLOID gametophyte
and
the DIPLOID sporophyte

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10
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The _____ dominates in early evolving lineages, but in vascular plants, the ______ is the larger and longer lived.

A
  • gametophyte

- sporophyte

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11
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There are 2 lineages of seed plants:

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-Gymnosperms and angiosperms

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Gymnosperms were…

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-the first to evolve

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13
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Angiosperms make….

A

flowers and release their seeds inside a fruit

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14
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Bryophytes are nonvascular plants that include:

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-mosses, hornworts, and liverworts

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15
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mosses are

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the most diverse bryophyte

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16
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The remains of mosses form…

A

Peat-which is dried and burned as fuel

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17
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Rhizome

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stem that grows horizontally

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18
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Ferns the most diverse seedless vascular plants, and produce spores in _____

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-sori

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19
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Many ferns are epiphytes which means?

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-plant that grows on another plant but does not harm it or draw any nutrients from it

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20
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Ferns have what instead of strobili?

21
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Oldest fossil of vascular plants?

A

Spores that date to ab 450 million yrs ago(late ordovician period)

22
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Early vascular plants looked like what?

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Early vascular plants stood only a few centimeters high and has a simple branching pattern, with no leaves or roots.

23
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What happen to species in the early Devonian period?

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-taller species with a more complex branching pattern were common worldwide.

24
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During the carboniferous period what happened?

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-Forest of Giant seedless vascular plants thrived during the carboniferous period(remains transformed to coal by heat and pressure)

25
The three time periods of the evolution of plant species mentioned
- Ordovician - Devonian - Carboniferous
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Earliest gymnosperm lineages?
-cycads and gins
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What angiosperm evolved while dinosaurs walked on earth?
-magnolias
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Bryophyte refers to what 3 lineages
- Mosses - hornworts - liverworts
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Most diverse bryophyte?
-mosses
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Most diverse seedless plant?
-ferns
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Gymnosperms
- plants with naked(not inside fruit) seeds | - produce seeds on surface of ovule and no not produce flowers/fruits
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Angiosperms
-seeds that make flowers and fruits
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What part of a flower produces pollen
-stamen
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Pollinators
-animal that moves pollen
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2 major lineages of flowering plants
- monocots | - eudicots
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monocots include
-orchids, pals, Lillies, and grasses
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eudicots include
-most herbaceous(nonwoody), plants like tomatoes, cabbages, roses, poppies, most flowering shrubs and trees and cacti.
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Dominant plants in most land habiatats and flowering plants are---
-ecologically important and essential to human existance
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What drug do some flowering plants produce? and what does it do?
- secondary metabolite | - mood altering drugs
40
How much percent is a tree carbon weight?
20%
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Every atom of carbon in a tree was taken up from the air in the form of
carbon dioxide
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Which of the following statements most accurately describes the reason deforestation occurs in developing nations?
Local and tropical forests are the main source for global market products, and they provide food, fuel, and lumber for growing populations.
43
Which of the following does not produce seeds?
horsetails
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In horsetails, lycophytes, and ferns
spores give rise to gametophytes
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strobili
cone-like spore-containing structures
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A plant produces a small cluster of spore-forming capsules on the underside of the structure that resembles leaves. You classify the plant as a:
a fern
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During fertilization of an angiosperm, the pollen tube delivers two sperm to an ovule where:
double fertilization occurs, and one sperm fertilizes the egg, and an endosperm results from the second sperm fertilizing a cell that has two nuclei
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___________, which provides food for the greatest number of people, is a type of __________.
rice; monocot
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wheat is a?
monocot