Vocabulary
An animal that has no backbone
Invertebrate
Mollusks and arthropods are examples of invertebrates of vertebrates?
inverterbrates.
What can a sponge NOT do that a plant CAN do?
A sponge can NOT make its own food.
How many seeds does a Monocot have?
one.
How many species of flowering plants are there?
at least 250,000
An animal that has hair or fur and feeds its young with milk produced by the mother
mammal.
Their body is protected and supported by a stiff outer covering that has joints to allow for movement.
Arthropods.
What do seeds contain?
A young plant.
How many seed leaves does a Dicot have inside their seeds?
Two.
What are two kinds of stems that flowering plants have?
hard, rigid, woody; green and flexible.
An animal that has a backbone.
vertebrate.
Soft-bodied invertebrates that have either 1 or 2 shells.
mollusks.
These vascular plants do not have flowers. They produce seeds in cones.
Conifers.
What are small, seedless, flowerless, plants with NO vascular tubes.
Mosses.
What are some useful items people get from flowering plants?
possible answers: fruits, vegetables, grains, cotton, linen, lumber.
A plant with long tubes inside that carry food and water to all the parts of the plant.
vascular plant.
A cell that can join with an egg cell to form a new individual.
sperm cell.
What do both conifer and a ferns NOT have?
flowers.
What are seedless, flowerless vascular plants
Ferns.
How are Ferns and Mosses ALIKE?
they are flowerless, seedless plants.
a cell that can join with a sperm cell to form a new individual.
Egg cell.
Vascular plants that do NOT produce flowers or seeds.
Ferns.
How does the sperm cell inside a pollen grain usually get to the egg cell inside a seed cone?
wind.
What are vascular plants with needle like leaves that reproduce by seeds in cones.
Conifers.
Why are conifers often called evergreens?
because most kinds DO NOT lose their leaves in winter.