Plants
Animals
True or False
Vocabulary
Random
Final Jeopardy
100
Plants can be pollinated by _____ , _______ , and _______ .
Animals, wind, water, other plants
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100
The period of time during which a mammal develops inside its mother’s body is called ________ .
Gestation
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100
TRUE OR FALSE:
Budding occurs when a new individual develops on the parent organism and grows there until it can survive on its own.
True
100
What occurs when a grain of pollen lands on the stigma of a flower?
Pollination
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100
How is a spore different from a seed? (List 3 ways)
Smaller, consists of only one cell and does not contain any stored food.
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100
Luis insists that fruits are only foods such as mangoes, apples, and watermelons. Kyla agreed that they are fruits, but that pecans and corn are also fruits. Which person do you agree with and why?
A fruit is the part of the plant that contains seeds. It is the ripened, seed-containing ovary of a flowering plant. Kyla is correct!
200
After a zygote cell divides, it is called a/an _________ .
Embryo
200
______ is a type of mammal whose young finishes developing in a pouch outside the mother’s body.
A marsupial mammal
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200
TRUE OR FALSE:
Fragmentation occurs when part of an organism is broken off but contains part of its center, so the whole organism can regrow.
False, Regeneration.
200
The part of the stamen that produces pollen is called the ______ .
Anther
200
A fruit is the part of a plant that contains the ______ .
Seeds
300
Ferns and mosses reproduce from ______ .
Spores
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300
________ is a type of mammal that develops fully inside the mother’s body.
A placental mammal
300
TRUE OR FALSE:
Vegetative Reproduction occurs when part of a plant usually not involved in reproduction develops into a new plant.
True
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300
The sticky tip of the pistil that traps pollen is called the _______ .
Stigma
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300
After fertilization, the ovule develops into the seed coat and the ovary develops into the _________ .
Fruit
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400
The three main parts of a seed are ______ , _______, and ______ .
Embryo, Cotyledon & Seed Coat
400
________ occurs when an organism breaks into tiny pieces that can grow into new organisms.
Fragmentation
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400
TRUE OR FALSE:
Cross-Pollination occurs when the pollen comes from a flower on a different plant.
True
400
Plants that produce seeds protected by only a cone or a fleshy seed coat are called ________ .
Gymnosperms
400
Draw and label a flower with the following parts:
Stamen, anther, filament, stigma, style, petal, sepal, ovary, pistil
500
What three things to plants need to germinate?
Water, Oxygen & Proper temperature
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500
________ Occurs when an organisms splits in half and becomes two separate organisms.
Binary Fission
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500
TRUE OR FALSE:
After germination, a pollen tube grows down into the flower’s pistil/ovule.
False, after “pollination,” not “germination.”
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500
Plants that have flowers and produce seeds enclosed in fruit are called _________ .
Angiosperms
500
Crabgrass is a kind of grass that produces stolons. Why is it difficult for a homeowner to remove crabgrass that has taken over a lawn?
Crabgrass produces stolons, which take hold of many places and produce many roots, making crabgrass very difficult to pull up and remove completely.