Plant Taxonomy
Vocabulary
Diagrams
Plant Behavior
Fungi
100

What is the difference between vascular and non-vascular plants?

Vascular plants have transport vessels to move water and nutrients around the plant, non-vascular plants do not

100

a process in which plants use energy from the Sun to make their own food in the form of glucose (sugar)

Photosynthesis 

100

Is this a taproot system or a fibrous root system?

Fibrous 

100

Is this an example of a positive tropism or a negative tropism?


Positive tropism

100

Mushrooms reproduce asexually by _________

spores

200

Name all 3 groups of angiosperms 

Annuals, biennials, perennials

200

the loss of water vapor by plants

Transpiration

200

What two types of leaves are pictured here?

Compound and simple leaves

200

What tropism is this an example of?

Gravitropism 

200

What is this part of the mushroom called?

Gills

300

Name all 3 groups of non-vascular plants

Mosses, hornworts, and liverworts

300

plants break down food molecules into usable energy 

Cellular respiration

300

What is the dark, center portion of a woody stem called? (not the very center)

Heartwood

300

Sunflowers following the sun across the sky is an example of..

Solar tracking, phototropism, or positive phototropism

300

The part of the mushroom that grows above ground that produces spores

The fruiting body

400

Name all 3 groups of seedless vascular plants

Ferns, club mosses, horsetails

400

the change in the growth of a plant in response to a stimulus

Tropism

400

What is the bottom part of the leaf called? (1)

Stalk or petiole

400

A Venus fly trap closing around its prey is an example of what?

Nastic movement

400

Network of hyphae that grows underground

Mycelium 

500

Name all 4 groups of gymnosperms

  • Cycads

  • Ginkgoes

  • Gnetophytes

  • Conifers

500

the growth of a plant in response to light

Phototropism

500

Is this a monocot or a dicot plant?

Dicot

500

What tropism is this an example of?

Thigmotropism

500

Explain why fungi and plants are in different kingdoms

Because fungi cannot produce their own food through photosynthesis 

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