Chapter 21 Flashcards
(49 cards)
Forest take up _______ from the air and release _________.
- Carbon Dioxide
- Oxygen
Deforestation had far reaching environmental effects including:
-increased erosion and climate change
Plants evolved from:
Green algae(Charophytes)
What are plants
-Embryophytes
Key adaptations that allowed plants to move into dry habitats include:
-a waterproof cuticle with stomata and internal pipelines of vascular tissue reinforced by login
Stomata open and clase to…..
balance demands for water conservation and gas exchange with air outside the plant
Internal vascular tissue
(Xylem and Phloem) are the vascular tissues that transport water and nutrients though a plant body
Vascular tissue are reinforced by
Lignin -material that stiffens cell walls or vascular plants and helps plants stand upright/help them branch
Plant life cycle include 2 multicellular bodies:
the HAPLOID gametophyte
and
the DIPLOID sporophyte
The _____ dominates in early evolving lineages, but in vascular plants, the ______ is the larger and longer lived.
- gametophyte
- sporophyte
There are 2 lineages of seed plants:
-Gymnosperms and angiosperms
Gymnosperms were…
-the first to evolve
Angiosperms make….
flowers and release their seeds inside a fruit
Bryophytes are nonvascular plants that include:
-mosses, hornworts, and liverworts
mosses are
the most diverse bryophyte
The remains of mosses form…
Peat-which is dried and burned as fuel
Rhizome
stem that grows horizontally
Ferns the most diverse seedless vascular plants, and produce spores in _____
-sori
Many ferns are epiphytes which means?
-plant that grows on another plant but does not harm it or draw any nutrients from it
Ferns have what instead of strobili?
Sori
Oldest fossil of vascular plants?
Spores that date to ab 450 million yrs ago(late ordovician period)
Early vascular plants looked like what?
Early vascular plants stood only a few centimeters high and has a simple branching pattern, with no leaves or roots.
What happen to species in the early Devonian period?
-taller species with a more complex branching pattern were common worldwide.
During the carboniferous period what happened?
-Forest of Giant seedless vascular plants thrived during the carboniferous period(remains transformed to coal by heat and pressure)