Plant Structure
Plant Reproduction
Photosynthesis
Cell Respiration
Random
100
What is the process that is unique to plant cells, which turns sunlight energy into sugar?
Photosynthesis
100
Describe what a pollinator is
An animal, usually a bug, that transports pollen from flower to flower. (Bees, butterflies, hummingbirds, etc)
100
Photosynthesis turns ______ energy into sugar.
Sunlight
100
What organelle is responsible for cellular respiration?
The mitochondria
100
What date is Good Friday this year?
April 3
200
Name all 5 major organs of a plant.
Roots, stem, leaves, fruit, flower
200
What is the topmost part of the female reproductive organ called? It is sticky and collects pollen.
Stigma
200
What is the name of the (most common) pigment that leaves have which is responsible for trapping sunlight energy for photosynthesis?
Chlorophyll
200
Cellular respiration takes the energy from ____ and turns it into ___?
Sugar into ATP
200
What is the state insect of North Carolina?
Honeybee
300
The xylem is a ____-way vascular vessel for ____ and some nutrients
The phloem is a ____-way vascular vessel for ____ and some nutrients
The xylem is a ONE-way vascular vessel for WATER and some nutrients
The phloem is a TWO-way vascular vessel for SUGAR and some nutrients
300
What is the point of plants making fruit?
So that animals eat the fruit and spread the seeds away from the parent plant so the baby plants are not competing for resources.
300
What is the name of the organelle that performs photosynthesis?
Chloroplast
300
Where in the mitochondria are the ATP synthases located?
Along the inner membrane, they turn as H+ flow past back into the lumen of the mitochondria
300
What does the prefix "Bell-" mean?
War, conflict
400
There are three possible places for the glucose made in photosynthesis to end up. Name all three.
Mitochondria for cell respiration, roots for starch storage, or made into cellulose for new cells.
400
What part of the plant become fruit?
The ovary of the flower after the seeds are fertilized (usually).
400
Tell me the full equation for photosynthesis, including numbers (you can write on the board if writing is easier than saying it out loud).
6CO2 + 6H2O + Sunlight --> 6O2 + C6H12O6 (sugar)
400
What is the enzyme called that adds the third phosphate onto ADP, turning it back into ATP, charging the molecule?
ATP synthase
400
What is Mrs. Voorhees's real last name?
Fennimore
500
What is the name of the type of cells that are the site of photosynthesis?
Palisade Mesophyll cells
500
Name all 3 parts of the female reproductive organ, and both parts of the male organ.
Pistol: stigma, style, ovary
Stamen: anther, filament
500
What enters and exits the stomata, and when are the stomata normally open? Must get all 4 answers for credit.
H2O and O2 exit, CO2 enters, stomata are normally open at night.
500
Come up to the board and draw ATP.
500
What carnivorous plant, first formally discovered in 1759, is only native to the wetlands of North and South Carolina? We're looking for a two-word answer.
Venus Flytrap