Botany Basics
The study of plants
What is botany?
The kingdom that contains all animals
What is Kingdom Animalia?
This is something to take on walks and hikes or to botanical gardens and plant nurseries. It is a record of things you see in nature.
What a nature journal?
Plants with tubes that carry liquid inside
What are vascular plants?
These are made by plants called Spermatophyta. Their purpose is to grow into new plants. Each one contains a baby plant, food for the baby plant, and a protective covering.
What are seeds?
A scientist that studies plants
What is a botanist?
The kingdom that contains all plants
What is Kingdom Plantae?
Name someone from history (that we discussed in class) who kept something like a nature journal, filled with their drawings and writings.
Who are da Vinci, Lewis and Clark, Alexander Graham Bell, and James John Audubon?
Plants that do not have tubes inside but instead absorb liquid
What are nonvascular plants?
Seed making plants
What are Spermatophyta?
The study of life
What is biology?
The kingdom that contains mushrooms
What is Kingdom Fungi?
These are often drawn quickly in your nature journal with only a pencil.
What are sketches?
The tubes that carry fluid and important nutrients in humans, animals, and even plants!
What are veins?
Millions of these are located inside the sporangia of seedless plants. They are tiny little bodies that can one day grow into new plants. Each one contains a baby plant and a protective coating only. There is no food for the baby plant in these.
What are spores?
Name one reason why we should study plants?
(answers vary)
The process of placing living things into different groups
What is taxonomy?
This can be drawn in your nature journal. It has labels with lines and arrows pointing to different parts of the sketch.
What is a diagram?
A vein in the very middle of a leaf that is thicker than the other veins. it gets water from the stem and carries it to all of the smaller veins in the leaf.
What is the midrib?
The clumps on the underside of ferns containing spores
What are sporangia?
On what day did Elohim, Our Strong Creator, create plants?
What is the 3rd day of Creation?
What two languages do scientists use to name things?
What are Latin and Greek?
You may occasionally include these in your nature journal. They are samples of leaves, pressed flowers, and small objects of nature that you might find outside.
What are specimens?
Moss and lichen are examples of this type of plant. (Vascular or nonvascular?)
What is nonvascular?
Moss and ferns are examples of these (Spermatophyta or Seedless Plants?)
What are seedless plants?