Purpose & Design of Flowers
From a Pollen to a Seed
Seeds and Stuff
Plant Familia's
Look at 'em Leaves
To Stem or not to Stem
Mystery (not hard questions)
100
The organ from which fruits develop.
What is an ovary?
100
The process of transfer of pollen from the stamen to the top of the pistil.
What is Pollination?
100
The scientific term for plants that produce seeds covered by a flower
What is an angiosperm?
100
Produce fruits called grains
What is the grass family?
100
The place where the leaf attaches to the stem
What is a node?
100
Growth in length
What is Primary Growth?
100
The food making process of plants
What is photosynthesis?
200
What is letter C. on this diagram?
What is the ovary?
200
The part of the plant embryo that develops into the root system
What is a radicle?
200
The first step of germination
What is swelling of the seed with water?
200
Produce fruits called legumes
What is the Pea family?
200
Kind of leaf venation is shown here
What is pinnate leaf venation?
200
The plants that have non-woody stems
What are herbaceous plants?
200
An underground structure made up of thick, fleshy leaves surrounding a very short stem.
What is a bulb?
300
The part of the stamen that produces the pollen.
What is an anther?
300
The part of the plant embryo that develops into the shoot system
What is a plumule?
300
A plant that needs two growing seasons to complete its life cycle.
What is a biennial plant?
300
Most important group of plants
What is the grass family?
300
A leaf type that has more than one blade join to the petiole
What is a compound leaf?
300
Kind of vascular tissue carries water and nutrients from the root hairs upward through the roots and stems to the leaves
What is Xylem tissue?
300
The tiny one celled reproductive structures found on plants such as ferns
What are spores?
400
What is letter A. on this diagram
What is the style?
400
The type of seed dispersal that requites an outside factor to disperse seeds.
What is agent dispersal?
400
Zonk!
-400
Wait this is supposed to be Jeopardy??!!
400
Square and stout stems with flowers usually arranged in spikes
What is the mint family?
400
Kind of leaf venation is shown here
What is parallel leaf venation?
400
Answer Gilbert's riddle or lose 400 points!
A goose between two geese,
And a goose ahead of two geese,
And a goose behind two geese:
How many geese were there?
What are three geese?
400
Kind of plant reproduction does not involve flowers, seeds, or fruits
What is vegetative reproduction?
500
The part of a flower that attracts pollinators.
What are petals?
500
After a pollen grain reaches the flower, the pollen grains tunnel through the style by creating a ___________________.
What is a pollen tube?
500
What happens to the cotyledons after the seedling no longer takes nutrients from them?
What is: They shrivel up and fall off
500
Most members have woody stems and fleshy fruits; flower parts in multiples of five and cup shaped blossoms with white pink or rose-colored petals
What is the Rose Family?
500
Zonk!!
-500
Unless you can get my riddle!
Trees are my home, but I never go inside. When I fall off a tree, I am dead. What am I?
What is a leaf?
500
The storage cells that surround a root's transport tubes
What is the Cortex?
500
Plant process only occurs during the daytime
What is photosynthesis?
600
What is letter B. on this diagram?
What is the style?
600
Type of dispersal that requires the plan to have a build-in exploding structural gizmo to disperse the seeds.
What is mechanical dispersal?
600
A young plant that is able to survive without its cotyledon
What is a seedling?
600
Also called crowfoot family because of their leaf shape that resembles a bird’s foot
What is the buttercup family?
600
What type of leaf arrangement is this?
What is opposite leaf arrangement?
600
Water and dissolved chemicals are absorbed through the cell membrane of the root hairs by what process?
What is osmosis?
600
A creeping stem that grows along the surface of the ground in most grass plants.
What is a stolon?
700
The leaf-like structures at the base of a flower’s petals.
What are sepals?
700
The three main parts of a seed include
What is a embryo, endosperm, and seed coat?
700
The two flowers that make up a composite flower
What are disk and ray flowers?
BONUS for an Extra 200 Points!!
Describe each one and its purpose.
700
Type of plants that help return nitrogen into the soil
What is the Pea Family?
OR
What are legumes?
700
Leaves that attach directly to the stem
What are sessile leaves?
700
The upward force in the transport tubes produced by water entering the root hairs
What is Root pressure?
700
Plants without vascular systems
What are Bryophytes?
800
The primary purpose of flowers is...
What is allowing for plant reproduction?
800
The German botanist that is known for discovering many complex details of plant reproduction
Who is Christian Konrad Sprengel?
800
Member of the parsley family that is also known as wild carrot
What is Queen Anne's Lace?
800
Monocots that have tepals and inferior ovaries and grow from bulbs, corms, or rhizomes
What is the Amaryllis family?
800
Describe this leaf margin.
What is lobed leaf margin?
800
The main force that brings water up a plant's transport tubes
What is Transpiration?
800
The little green structures within plant cells
What are chloroplasts?