Vocabulary
The sprouting of a seed into a new plant.
What is germination?
Firm tissues in this plant part hold the leaves up to the sunlight. Some tissues help transport water from the roots to the leaves.
What is the stem?
Starfish, spiders, crabs, squid, and arthropods are all examples of _____________.
What are invertebrates?
Both animals and and flowering plants contain ovaries. What do ovaries produce?
They produce eggs.
Animals can make their own food, plants cannot.
What is false?
The female organ of a flower.
What is the pistil?
This plant part takes in water and other materials from the soil. The hold the plant in the soil. They also store extra food that the plant doesn't need right away.
What are roots?
Stinkbugs, earwigs, crickets, grasshoppers, cockroaches, ants and praying mantis go through what kind of metamorphosis?
What is incomplete metamorphosis?
What two stages of development are shared when comparing complete and incomplete metamorphosis?
What are the egg and adult stages?
Leaves capture sunlight and make food for the plant.
What is true?
A gradual change, with 3 phases, through the stages of growth.
What is incomplete metaporphosis?
Mosses, ferns, and liverworts are examples of what kind of plants?
What are non-flowering plants?
What do deer, snakes, frogs, fish, iguanas, and flamingos have in common?
They are all vertebrates.
Most plants have a waxy covering that helps protect the plant from losing too much water. Which human structure is similar in function to the waxy covering?
What is skin?
A baby plant found in a lima bean is called a nymph.
What is false.
A rigid external covering for the body in some invertebrate animals, esp. arthropods.
What is the exoskeleton?
This part of the plant absorbs sunlight and makes food for the plant.
What are the leaves?
In Mrs. Torres's science class, we watched a caterpillar change into a butterfly. What stage comes after the larvae stage?
What is the pupa stage?
Animals have structures like a hard outer shell to give them support. What plant structure helps support the plant?
What is the stem?
The male part of the plant is called the stigma.
What is false?
The male fertilizing organ of a flower.
What is the stamen?
This flower part contains and protects the eggs.
What is the pistil?
What do you call the structure that supports and helps protect an insects body?
What is an exoskeleton?
Name a way that plants and animals are different.
1) Plants make their own food, humans do not.
2) Plants breathe carbon dioxide, humans breathe oxygen.
Cross-pollination happens when insects, birds, bees and wind take the pollen from one flower's pistil to the stamen of another flower.
What is false? Terms are backwards.