Science: Plants and Ecology

Question 1

_ plant

Leaves produce food
Roots absorb water through soil
Tissues transport water and nutrients through stem

Answer 1

Vascular plants

Question 2

Special tissue plants use transports water and minerals

Transport sugars through plants

Answer 2

Xylem

Phloem

Question 3

Male reproductive organ on flower

Female reproductive organ on a flower

Answer 3

Stamen

Pistil

Question 4

Pollen stored in

Answer 4

Anther

Question 5

Ovary of the flower

Answer 5

Carpel

Question 6

Receives the pollen ( male reproductive cell)

Answer 6

Stigma

Question 7

Part of seed that provides nourishment for the plant embryo

Answer 7

Endosperm

Question 8

Plant with only one embryo in each seed

2 examples

Answer 8

Monocot

Corn
Wheat

Question 9

Plants with two embryos on each seed

Ex:

Answer 9

Dicot

Beans

Question 10

Nonflowering plants that use seeds to reproduce, carried by wind

Ex:

Answer 10

Gymnosperms (naked seeds)

Confiers - pine , cedar , redwood

Question 11

Single celled reproductive body

Ex: ferns and mosses

Answer 11

Spores

Question 12

Attractive nature encourages animals to pollinate the plant

Answer 12

Angiosperms

Question 13

5 levels of ecology(small to large)

Old
People
Catch
Easy 
Break

Answer 13

Organisms
Populations
Communities
Ecosystems 
Biosphere

Question 14

Organisms place in the food web called

Answer 14

Trophic

Question 15

Development and changes that occur during colonization of a new habitat such as newly exposed rock

Answer 15

Primary succession

Question 16

Changes to previously colonized habitat tat has been disrupted but events like forest fires

Answer 16

Secondary succession

Question 17

Collection of plant and animal communities that exist within specific climates * living features only (biotic)
* can exist across continents

Answer 17

Biomes

Tropical rainforests

Question 18

_ biome

Defined by distinct patterns in temp and rainfall

Answer 18

Terrestrial biomes

Question 19

_ biome

Defined by type of water and organisms

Answer 19

Aquatic biome

Question 20

_ trees lose leaves in winter

_ keep leaves year round

Answer 20

Deciduous

Evergreen

Question 21

Primary consumer

Secondary consumer

Tertiary consumer

Answer 21

Herbivores

Carnivores consume herbivores

Carnivores consume carnivores

Question 22

Aquatic biome - river meets ocean

Shrubland biome

Tropical grassland, nutrient poor soil

Answer 22

Estuary

Chaparral

Savanna