What are algae?
Algae are (usually) single-celled plant like organisms
What does photosynthesis produce?
Oxygen, energy (glucose), and water
What are the three types of roots?
Fibrous, taproot, and adventitious
True/False: All flowers have petals
False
What does algae contribute to the lichen?
Algae makes food through photosynthesis
What is a lichen?
Lichen is an algae and a fungus in a symbiotic relationship.
What is super hardy, can live without water or air, and has more than 1000 species?
WATERBEARS!
What are the two different types of stems?
Woody and herbaceous
Give an example of a gymnosperm
Any kind of conifer or pine, ginkgo biloba trees, etc
What are the female parts of the flower called?
Stigma, style, and the ovary
What is a symbiotic relationship?
A relationship between two species where both benefit.
What Ecology mean?
The study of the house hold.....Ecology includes not only how living things interact with each other, but also nonliving
What are the two types of veins in leaves?
parallel or net
Where are the seeds found in gymnosperms?
Often on cones, but they are not enclosed.
What are the reactants and the products in photosynthesis?
Sunlight, water and Carbon Dioxide are the reactants, glucose and oxygen and water are the products.
Mosses are non-vascular plants. What does that mean?
Mosses lack a conducting system (no xylem and phloem for transport of nutrients). This is why they only grow in moist areas and never grow very tall.
What does xylem do?
Xylem takes water to the stem
What are two differences between monocots and dicots?
Monocots of have one cotyledon while dicots have two, monocots have parallel leaf veins and dicots have web, stem herbaceous in monocot vs either in dicot
Where are angiosperms seeds found?
seeds inside fruit
What are the steps of the scientific method?
observation, hypothesis, experiment, data (analysis), and results/conclusion
What do mosses reproduce with?
spores
How are pollinators attracted to flowers?
flower’s color, shape, or smell
What are the male parts of the flower? (I'm looking for three things)
Stamen, which consists of the filament and the anther
Name 4 leaf shapes
What is the independent variable vs. dependent variable?
Independent variable- the variable that you change/alter (ie. type of music played for plants)
Dependent variable - the variable you measure (how much did each plant grow)