Vocabulary
Structure
Reproduction
Food Web
100
A vessel that transports water and minerals.
What is phloem.
100
A lower protective part that bears no chlorophyll.
What is sheath.
100
The male gametophyte of a seed-bearing plant.
What is pollen.
100
Organic matter such as animal wastes and bits of decaying tissue.
What is detritus.
200
Cloudiness of the water.
What is turbidity.
200
The jointlike structure on a plant stem at which leaves and sometimes lateral stems and roots arise.
What is node.
200
A type of asexual reproduction in which a part of the parent organism breaks off and forms a new individual.
What is fragmentation.
200
An animal who eats plants only.
What is herbivores.
300
A salt-tolerant plant.
What is halophyte.
300
Horizontal stems with long internodes.
What is rhizomes.
300
The release and fertalization of pollen through water.
What is hydrophilous pollination.
300
The animal that eats 5% of seagrasses where it lives.
What is waterfowl.
400
Provides structure for the plant.
What is xylem.
400
The outer photosynthetic part of a leaf, usually flattened and free of the stem.
What is blade.
400
Where the female keeps the egg inside her until they hatch.
What is viviparity.
400
In the Caribbean, about 90% of these animals diet consists of turtlegrass.
What is green turtles and parrotfishes.
500
A plant generally submerged under water.
What is hydrophyte.
500
The part of the plant stem taht lies between successive nodes, leaves, lateral stems, or roots.
What is internode.
500
The part of the female flower that recieves pollen.
What is stigma.
500
The kind of seagrass that green turtles and bucktooth parrotfishes eat.
What is turtlegrass.
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