Vascular Plants
What are the 3 primary "organs" of a vascular plant?
roots, stems, and leaves
What are the 2 main jobs of the roots?
Absorb water and nutrients and anchor the plant into the soil
What is needed for a plant to begin photosynthesis?
Sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water.
True or False, the sexual reproduction part of the plant is the flower?
True
Does a monocot or dicot seed have 1 cotyledon?
Monocot
What are the two kinds of vascular tissues in vascular plants?
xylem and phloem
What are the main four parts of a flower?
Sepals, petals, stamens and carpels (pistols).
Plant use photosynthesis to make what 3 things?
Sugar (glucose), starch, and carbohydrates.
What are non-flowering plants called and give an example?
Gymnosperm: conifers, pine trees (seeds are not enclosed in ovary)
Give 2 examples of monocot plants.
Grasses, grains, corn, onion, palm trees, sweet potatoes, lilies
What is the main difference between xylem and phloem?
Xylem carries water and nutrients up from the roots and phloem carries sugars from the leaves through the plant
What is the male part of the flower called?
Stamen
Photosynthesis transforms light energy into what type of energy?
Chemical energy.
Give an example of asexual reproduction of a runner plant and a tuber plant?
Strawberries and potatoes
What are the 3 primary parts of a seed?
Embryo, endosperm and seed coat
Give three examples of vascular plants.
Trees, flowers, and grasses.
What is the female part of the flower called?
Carpel or pistol.
Plants use the suns energy during photosynthesis to break up water into what two parts?
Hydrogen and oxygen.
What are 2 examples of plants the reproduce asexually?
Algae and bulbs
Give 2 examples of dicot plants.
Beans, celery, cactus, apple trees, pumpkins, roses, poison ivy.
In vascular plants, where does photosynthesis occur?
In the leaves.
What are the 3 parts of the carpel or pistol?
Stigma, style, and ovary.
What are the 3 main steps in photosynthesis?
1. Plants use the sun's energy to break down water into hydrogen and oxygen.
2. Most of the oxygen is released into the environment.
3. The remaining oxygen and hydrogen combine with the carbon dioxide taken in through the leaves to form glucose (sugar)
What are flowering plants called and give an example?
Angiosperm: celery, beans, roses (ovules are enclosed in an ovary)
Describe the differences between the leaves and stems of a monocot and dicot plant?
Monocot plants have veins that run parallel in their leaves and the veins in the stem are scattered. (grass, corn)
Dicot plants have netlike leaves and the veins in the stem form a ring. (celery, bean)