The process by which the stomata release excess water from the plant that comes up from the roots.
What is transpiration?
100
What is a plant embryo that contains food for the embryo so that it can germinate?
A seed.
100
Bristlecone pines
What are the oldest trees on earth?
200
Assigning two names.
What is binomial nomenclature?
200
The baby plant inside a seed.
What is an embryo?
200
What is released into the air by the leaf?
Oxygen.
200
What are little clusters of sporangia that are on the underside of a frond?
A sori.
200
pollen and seed
What are the two different types of cones?
300
What is vascular?
A plant that has tubes that carry liquid inside the plant. Vascular means tubes that carry fluid.
300
What is the filament and the anther?
The male parts of the flower, the stamen, have these two structures.
300
What are the little structures that expand and shrink on the bottom side of the leaf?
Guard cells.
300
The tiny, heart shaped plantlet that that a spore grows into.
What is a prothallus?
300
They fertilize soil and clear landscape for more growth.
Why can forest fires be good?
400
The hilum.
What is the seed's belly button or scar?
400
What is the special substance that absorbs light, takes the light's energy and gives it to the leaf and makes the leaf green?
What is chlorophyll?
400
What are the two parts of a fern leaf?
Pinnae and rachis.
400
When two different organisms form a relationship where they are dependent on one another, it is called ?
Symbiosis.
500
The hilum.
What is the seed's belly button or scar?
500
The stigma and the style.
The female parts of the flower has these two structures.
500
What is "putting together with light"?
Photosynthesis.
500
A runner that grows from fern plants along the ground.
What is a rhizome?
500
What are at least two uses of lichen?
Protects trees
Monitors air quality
Breaks down rocks and leads to fresh soil.
Good sources of food for caribou and reindeer
Homes for spiders, mites, lice and insects.