Characteristics of Living things
ability to change place or position.
What is movement?
A tropism in which a plant “bends” towards the sun throughout the day
What is Phototropism?
Plants use energy from sunlight to make food from carbon dioxide and water.
What is photosynthesis?
Because plants make their own food, they are called ________.
What is a producer?
Plants are classified into four groups.
What are nonvascular plants, vascular plants, gymnosperm, and angiosperm?
permanent increase in size and shape
What is Growth?
Tropism in which a plant responds to the stimulus of gravity.
What is Gravitropism?
A waxy layer that coats most of the surfaces of plants that are exposed to air.
What is cuticle?
A green pigment that captures energy from sunlight.
What is chlorophyll?
The 3 groups of plants (liverworts, hornworts, and mosses) that lack specialized conducting tissues and true roots, stem, and leaves. They also depend on diffusion to move materials from one part of the plant to another.
What is noncascular plants?
Passing of genetic information to offspring.
What is Reproduction?
A tropism where a plant responds to the stimulus of water by growing or bending towards it.
What is Hydrotropism?
Surrounds a cell membrane that protects and supports the plant cell.
What is a cell wall?
Any change in an organism’s environment that causes to the organism to react.
What is stimulus?
A plant that has tissues (vascular tissues) to deliver water and nutrients from one part of the plant to another.
What is vascular plants?
Intake of nutrients for energy and growth
What is Nutrition?
When a plant responds to touch such as a grade vine wrapping around a branch.
What is Thigmotropism?
Plants have two stages in their life cycle. Which stage does a plant make spores that grows into a gametophyte.
What is Sporophyte stage?
A characteristic of living things that define as getting rid of waste materials.
What is excretion?
A woody, vascular seed plant whose seeds are not enclosed by an ovary or fruits. Nonflowering seed plants.
What is gymnosperms?
ability to respond to environmental stimulus.
What is Sensitivity?
The reaction to a stimulus
What is a response?
Plants have two stages in their life cycle. Which stage does the sperm fertilizes the egg that grows into sporophytes?
What is gametophyte stage?
A characteristic of living thing that define as a chemical reaction to produce energy.
What is Respiration?
A flowering plant that produces seeds within a fruit.
What is angiosperm?