Arrangements/Prairie
Botany of Desire
Cells and Tissues
Roots and Soil
Flower, Fruits, and Seeds
100
A flower with a non-symmetrical shape.
What is an irregular flower?
100
This is when humans choose desirable traits in an organism to breed.
What is artificial selection?
100
A plant cell structure that converts sunlight into sugar.
What is a chloroplast?
100
Extensions of a primary root that form mutualistic relationships with fungi.
What are root hairs?
100
Reproductive bodies created by mosses and ferns instead of pollen and eggs.
What are spores?
200
A flower arrangement that looks like an upside-down umbrella.
What is an umbel?
200
A group of plants that are all the same species.
What is a monoculture?
200
A plant cell structure that is filled with unique proteins giving plants features such as waxy leaves or tough bark.
What is a secondary cell wall?
200
Roots of parasitic plants that gown on host plants entirely above ground.
What are aerial roots?
200
The sticky portion of a female flower that attracts pollen.
What is the stigma?
300
A leaf arrangement that spirals down the stem of a plant.
What is whorled?
300
Practices that cannot continue into the future.
What are unsustainable practices?
300
Proteins that reflect and absorb certain wavelengths giving color to leaves and flowers.
What are pigments?
300
A fine, particulate substrate ground up by glaciers and high in nutrients.
What is loess?
300
The portion of the flower just below the ovary that serves as protection.
What is the receptacle?
400
A natural resource that helped recycle nutrients, germinate seeds, and kill off invasive species on the tallgrass prairie.
What is fire?
400
The process of breeding two similar species.
What is hybridization?
400
The main reason for leaf color change in the autumn.
What is reabsorption of sugar from leaves?
400
Roots that stick up out of the ground to obtain air in flooded areas and coasts.
What are pneumatophores?
400
A fruit categorized for the aromatic oils in its leathery skin.
What is a hesperidum?
500
A practice that resulted in less topsoil, polluted air and water, and nutrient deficient soil.
What is agriculture?
500
One of the most important functions of our brain that marijuana stimulates.
What is forgetting?
500
The process of evaporated water pulling other water molecules through the xylem tissue of a plant by cohesion.
What is transpiration?
500
The nutrient in soil that contributes most to the production of chlorophyll and, therefore, the green color of plants.
What is nitrogen?
500
The most common source of seed dispersal in plants.
What is wind?
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