Characteristics of Living Things
Vocabulary Words
Plant Diversity
Plant Reproduction
Miscellaneous
100
Name one living thing in the classroom and explain your answer.
What is ___________________________?
100
Angiosperms have these two characteristics.
What is they have fruit and/or flowers?
100
The difference between asexual and sexual reproduction is this.
What is asexual reproduction involves one parent organism and produces identical organisms and sexual reproduction involves two parent organisms and produces genetically similar organisms.
100
These plants are planted every year.
What are annuals?
100
Plants need these three things in order to complete photosynthesis:
What is light, water, and carbon dixoide?
200
Name one non-living thing in the classroom and explain your answer.
What is _________________________________.
200
A period of no growth is called this.
What is dormancy?
200
Name two different kinds of stems.
What are woody and herbaceous stems?
200
This is the female reproductive part of a flower.
What is the pistil?
200
This is what scientists use to group organisms by similar characteristics.
What is a dichotomous key?
300
Name three reasons why a germ is living or non-living.
What is it is living because it can reproduce, it can grow, and it reponds to its environment.
300
These are openings in the leaves of plants that allow gas exchange to occur.
What are stomata?
300
Name an example of an angiosperm.
What are ___________________________.
300
This is the male reproductive part of a flower.
What is the stamen?
300
The differences between vascular and non-vascular plants is this.
What is vascular plants have transport tissues and non-vascular plants do not?
400
An example of this characteristic is shivering to increase body temperature.
What is responding to the environment?
400
This type of plant does not produce fruit or flowers.
What are gymnosperms?
400
Name two different kinds of non-vascular plants.
What are mosses, hornworts, and liverworts?
400
Name one difference between the life cycles of seedless plants and seed plants.
What is seedless plants reproduce asexually or with spores and seed plants reproduce sexually?
400
Plants create these two substances as a result of photosynthesis.
What is glucose and oxygen?
500
These are the six characterisitcs of living things.
What is all living things: 1. Are made of cells 2. Are organized 3. Grow and develop 4. Respond to the environment 5. Reproduce 6. Use energy
500
These help non-vascular plants stabilize.
What are rhizoids?
500
The stages in the plant life cycle are these two stages.
What is the gametophyte and sporophyte stages?
500
These plants grow for many years.
What are perennials?
500
The three unique structures in a plant cell include:
What is: 1. Cell wall 2. Chloroplasts 3. Large central vacuole
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