Plant

Question 1

Flowering Plants

Answer 1

Consist of a shoot and a root.

Question 2

The shoot

Answer 2

Consists of the stem, leaves, buds and flowers.

Question 3

The root

Answer 3

Anchors the plant, absorbs water and minerals from the soil and stores food made in the leaves.

Question 4

The stem

Answer 4

Supports the leaves and flowers and allows for the transport of materials up and down the plant.

Question 5

The leaf

Answer 5

makes food, loses water vapor and exchanges the gases carbon dioxide and oxygen with the air.

Question 6

The flower

Answer 6

Is for reproduction, it forms the seeds.

Question 7

Plants are identified

Answer 7

By their flowers and leaves

Question 8

Photosynthesis

Answer 8

The process by which green plants make food. It’s carried in all the green parts of the plant - especially the leaves.

Question 9

Chlorophyll

Answer 9

The green chemical needed for photosynthesis found in the chloroplasts of plant cells. It traps lights energy and uses it to combine carbon dioxide and water to form glucose and oxygen.

Question 10

Glucose

Answer 10

Travels around the plant in special cells called phloem.

Question 11

Leaves

Answer 11

Are specially designed for photosynthesis

Question 12

Carbon dioxide, water, light and chlorophyll

Answer 12

Are needed for photosynthesis to occur

Question 13

Carbon dioxide

Answer 13

Enters the leaf from the air

Question 14

Water

Answer 14

Is absorbed from the soil through the roots

Question 15

Boiling

Answer 15

Kills cells and softens the leaf

Question 16

Methylated spirit

Answer 16

Removes chlorophyll from the leaf

Question 17

Rinsed

Answer 17

To soften it

Question 18

Iodine

Answer 18

To test the leaf for the presence of starch

Question 19

Xylem vessels

Answer 19

Where water and vessels move up through the plant.

Question 20

Transpiration

Answer 20

The loss of water vapor from the leaves of a plant.

Question 21

Stomata

Answer 21

Little holes underneath leafs where water leaves the plant.

Question 22

Transpiration provides

Answer 22

Water for photosynthesis, carries minerals in the water and cools the plant.

Question 23

Phloem

Answer 23

Where food is transported from the leaves to the rest of the plant.

Question 24

Tropism

Answer 24

The growth of a plant in response to a stimulus

Question 25

Phototropism

Answer 25

Is a plants growth response to gravity.

Question 26

Plant stems

Answer 26

Grow towards the light, allowing their leaves to get light.

Question 27

Geotropism

Answer 27

A plants growth response to gravity.

Question 28

Plant roots

Answer 28

Grow towards the source of gravity, allowing them to get water

Question 29

Plants reproduce sexually

Answer 29

By means of flowers

Question 30

Petals

Answer 30

Are coloured and scented to attract insects.

Question 31

The sepal

Answer 31

Protects the flower before it blooms

Question 32

The male part (stamen)

Answer 32

Consists of the anther and filament.

Question 33

The female part (carpel)

Answer 33

Consists of the stigma, style and ovary

Question 34

Pollen

Answer 34

Made in the anther of the stamen

Question 35

The egg

Answer 35

Made in the ovary of the carpel

Question 36

Pollination

Answer 36

The transfer of pollen from anther to stigma. Plants are pollinated by either insects or wind.

Question 37

Fertilisation

Answer 37

Is the fusion of the pollen nucleus with the egg nucleus to form a zygote

Question 38

A seed

Answer 38

A fertilised ovule

Question 39

The ovary wall

Answer 39

Becomes the fruit

Question 40

Seeds are dispersed to

Answer 40

Avoid competition and are dispersed by animal, wind, self-dispersal or water

Question 41

Animal dispersal

Answer 41

The bird dispersed the seeds

Question 42

Wind dispersal

Answer 42

Of dandelion seeds

Question 43

Self dispersal

Answer 43

Pea pods explode

Question 44

Water dispersal

Answer 44

Seeds float away

Question 45

Germination

Answer 45

The growth of a seed into a new plant

Question 46

Seed germination

Answer 46

Necessary to form a new plant.

Question 47

The seed consists of

Answer 47

the testa (seed coat), the food supply, the plumule (young shoot) and the radicle (young root)

Question 48

Water, oxygen and heat

Answer 48

Are needed for germination

Question 49

Asexual reproduction

Answer 49

Involves only one parent

Question 50

A geranium

Answer 50

Can reproduce asexually by using leaf cuttings, a cut geranium leaf placed in the soil will grow into a new plant

Question 51

Other examples of asexual reproduction include

Answer 51

Tulip and daffodil bulbs, strawberry runners

Question 52

Air, water and soil temperatures

Answer 52

Are taken using a thermometer

Question 53

Light intensity in the habitat

Answer 53

Is measured using a light meter

Question 54

Equipment used for collecting animals

Answer 54

Pooter, a net, a beating tray and a pitfall trap

Question 55

A quadrat

Answer 55

Used to estimate plant numbers.

Question 56

Line transect

Answer 56

Used to show changes in plant numbers across a boundary in the habitat.

Question 57

Simple keys

Answer 57

A set of simple questions which are asked about the organism you’re trying to identify.