Vocabulary
A process that uses light energy to make food from simple chemicals.
What is photosynthesis?
These push up through the soil and contain millions of spores.
What is a fruiting body?
The seeds are not contained within the fruit of the plant.
What are gymnosperms?
Fungi that feeds on dead matter such as the wood of dead trees.
What are saprotrophs?
Plants that have specially adapted to living in water.
What are hydrophytes?
Living things that absorb food from living or dead matter around them.
What is fungi?
This is the protective outer layer of a fruiting body.
What is the veil?
These produce seeds enclosed in a fruit of some kind.
What are angiosperms?
Fungi release these chemicals which break down their food into simple substances.
What are enzymes?
This type of water plant grows well in very wet soils.
What is emergent?
What is a spore?
What is the stalk?
Seedless vascular plants do not produce flowers and therefore reproduce in this manner.
What are spores?
This bright yellow or gold colored fungus that grows on trees.
What is sulfur shelf fungus?
These plants grow beneath the surface of the water or may float on the surface.
What is submergent?
A plant that grows either partly or totally submerged in water.
What is hydrophyte?
This is the main part of most fungi and is found underground.
What is the mycelium?
What is moss and liverwort?
The helpful relationship between fungi and plants.
What is mutualistic?
This is one of the simplest types of algae.
What are diatoms?
A simple, plant-like organism that makes its food by photosynthesis.
What is algae?
These are lined with specialized cells called basidia and drop the spores to create new fungal colonies.
What are the gills?
Plants without vascular tissue are also known by this name.
What are bryophytes?
Dead matter contains these useful substances and fungi play an important part in their continued cycle.
What are carbon and nitrogen?
This is a type of many celled algae.
What is seaweed?