Flowering Plants

Question 1

What is the outer layer of the plant called?

Answer 1

The sepal

Question 2

Which two parts of the flower can look identical when it’s fully grown?

Answer 2

The sepal and the petals

Question 3

What is the sticky sugar fluid called found on the base of the petals?

Answer 3

Nectar

Question 4

What does the nectar do and why is it needed?

Answer 4

Attracts insects and it’s needed for pollination

Question 5

What is the male reproductive part of the flower?

Answer 5

The stamen

Question 6

What does the stamen contain?

Answer 6

The anther and is support by a stringy thing called the filament

Question 7

What is the job of the anther?

Answer 7

To produce pollen

Question 8

Where is the sperm of the flowering plant contained?

Answer 8

In the pollen grains

Question 9

The part of the pistil in which the pollen tube grows down

Answer 9

Style

Question 10

What is the female reproductive part of the flower?

Answer 10

The pistil

Question 11

The transfer of pollen between the anther and the stigma in any flower plant is called…..

Answer 11

Pollination

Question 12

This lead part opens to allow water gases to enter and leave the leaf

Answer 12

Stomata

Question 13

Sugar made by the plant flies through this plant tissue

Answer 13

Phloem

Question 14

This part of the leaf opens and closes the stoma

Answer 14

Guard cells

Question 15

Plant growing towards sunlight

Answer 15

Phototropism

Question 16

Carries water and minerals throughout the plant

Answer 16

Xylem

Question 17

Where does the pollen have to land?

Answer 17

On the stigma

Question 18

Non-sexual parts of the flower

Answer 18

Sepals

Petals

Question 19

Sexual parts of the flower

Answer 19

MALE
stamen
Anther
Filament

FEMALE
pistil 
Ovary 
Style
Stigma

Question 20

Types of pollination

Answer 20

Self pollination

Cross pollination

Question 21

Types of seed dispersal

Answer 21

Wind (pine seed)
Water (coconut)
Animals (bird)

Question 22

What is self pollination

Answer 22

Pollination within the same plant

Question 23

What is cross pollination

Answer 23

Pollination with another plant

Question 24

What is Fertilization

Answer 24

The process when male pollen grain enzymatically ‘drills’ a pollen tube down the style to the ovary, and then fuses with or fertilizes a female ovum to form a single-called zygote

Question 25

What is the fruit

Answer 25

The enlarged fleshy ovule which contains the seed that developed from the zygote

Question 26

What is essential for germination?

Answer 26

Water

Question 27

I gat is geotropism

Answer 27

When after germination of the seed the shoot hews upward and the root grows downward

Question 28

What are cotyledons/seed-leaves

Answer 28

The first leaf/leaves to grow

Question 29

What are monocotyledons

Answer 29

Have one cotyledon or seed-leaf | Plants such as grasses and irises

Question 30

What are dicotyledons

Answer 30

Have two cotyledons or seed-leaves | Are plants such as roses and carrots

Question 31

What is gametophyte

Answer 31

The haploid/monopolid organism | Usually The smaller plant

Question 32

What is sporophyte

Answer 32

The diploid organism | Usually the larger plant

Question 33

What is this Alternation of generations

Answer 33

The alternating forms of organism produced- gametophyte and sporophyte

Question 34

Which two parts helps protect the flower bud

Answer 34

The sepal and the petals

Question 35

Which two parts connects the flower to the rest of the plant

Answer 35

The stem and the receptacle

Question 36

Order of plant reproduction

Answer 36

Pollination Fertilization Seed dispersal

Question 37

What is the opening to the ovary called?

Answer 37

Micropyle

Question 38

How many males cells enters the the ovary?

Answer 38

2

Question 39

What does the male sex cell do when they enter the ovary?

Answer 39

One male sex cell fuses with the female egg fertilizing it and the other one attaches to two cells in the embryo sac forming an Endosperm

Question 40

What is the function of the roots

Answer 40

To take in water and minerals for the plant Anchor plant Store food Absorb nutrients from soil

Question 41

What does the root hairs do?

Answer 41

Increase the surface area for more water absorption

Question 42

What is the function of the stem

Answer 42

To use their vessels to transport sap and water throughout the plant

Question 43

What is sap?

Answer 43

Sap is a nutrient rich fluid that contains a lot of sugar

Question 44

What is photosynthesis

Answer 44

The process when leaf cells containing chlorophyll take in carbon dioxide and water and using sunlight make sugar and oxygen

Question 45

What is transpiration

Answer 45

The loss of water from the leaf. This helps to draw water up through the plant from the roots

Question 46

What is the upper and lower epidermis

Answer 46

Protective layers on the upper and lower sides of the leaf

Question 47

What is the cuticle

Answer 47

Waxy layer on the upper epidermis to reduce water loss

Question 48

What is palisade cell layer

Answer 48

Layer without chloroplasts beneath the upper epidermis

Question 49

What is the spongy mesophyll layer

Answer 49

Layer beneath palisade layer containing chloroplasts which photosynthesise sugars also contains veins carrying xylem and phloem and many air spaces got exchange of carbon dioxide and oxygen

Question 50

What is the stoma (stomata)

Answer 50

Pores in the lower epidermis that are surrounded by bean shaped guard cells that contain chloroplasts

Question 51

What is the organ of reproduction in flowering plants

Answer 51

The flower

Question 52

When does pollination occur

Answer 52

When pollen is transferred by insects or wind from the anther to the stigma

Question 53

Water lives from the root up to the leaf because of……

Answer 53

Capillary action

Question 54

How does monocot leaves look?

Answer 54

Parallel veins | Long/slender blades

Question 55

How does dicot leaves look?

Answer 55

Branched veins | Broad shaped

Question 56

How are the stems for monocots?

Answer 56

Vascular bundles scattered throughout | Most vascular bundles near edge of stem

Question 57

How are dicot stems?

Answer 57

Vascular bundles arranged in a ring

Question 58

How many petals does a monocot have?

Answer 58

3

Question 59

How many petals does a dicot have?

Answer 59

4 or 5

Question 60

What kind of roots does monocots have?

Answer 60

Fibrous roots

Question 61

What kind of roots does dicots have?

Answer 61

Tap roots

Question 62

Are most monocots herbaceous?

Answer 62

Yes