Reproduction
The male and female parts of the flower.
Stamen & Carpel
A green photosynthetic pigment found in the chloroplasts of plants, algae, and some bacteria
Chlorophyll
This is the name used for plants that die back in the winter and return in the spring.
Deciduous
The process by which the stomata release excess water from the plant that comes up from the roots.
Transpiration
4 eco regions of IL
Prairies, oak Savanna, Woodlands, Wetlands
Ferns and mosses reproduce by these.
Spores
This part of the flower holds ovules, tiny egg shaped structures.
Ovary
An angiosperm that has one cotyledon.
Monocot
When there is not enough oxygen
When the pollen from the stamen goes to the carpel on the same flower, but the pollen tube is not allowed to grow.
Self-incompatibility
What are the little structures that expand and shrink on the bottom side of the leaf?
Guard Cells
Plants with seeds in cones are called this.
What is gymnosperms?
competition, symbiosis, parasitism
4 types of ecosystem services.
What is provisioning, regulating, cultural, and supporting?
Name at least five methods of seed dispersal.
What is water, wind, animal, gravity, and explosive?
This is what we call the wood on the very inside of the tree.
3 zones of root development
cell division, elongation, maturation
3 tropisms and an example of each
phototrophism, gravitropism, hydroptropism, thigmotrophism
3 major goals of conservation
Describe variety, predict effects, develop solutions
This part of the seed is the largest, and provides food for the embryo once the seed opens and begins to grow.
What is the cotyledon?
4 organelles unique to a plant cell.
Cell wall, central vacuole, microbodies, plastids
3 types of plastids and where they are found.
Chromoplasts - color when ripe, leucoplasts - potato starch, etioplasts - leaves of plants grown in the dark
Phragmosome, preprophase band, phragmoplast
Overharvesting, habitat loss, invasives, tropic cascades, climate change