Biomes
Has warm summers and cold winters and plants that are both short and tall grasses
What is a temperate grassland?
located in a tropical climate zone where water temp remains warm and contains the most amount of biodiversity found in the ocean.
What is a coral reef?
A molecule in the plant that makes it green.
What is chlorophyll?
Plants that are nonvascular and do not have any stomata.
What are the liverworts?
Has petals that are multiples of 3s, parallel veins in the leaves, vascular bundles scattered throughout the the stem, and fibrous roots
What are monocots
Has long cold winters lasting greater than 10 months, plant community contains conifers (evergreens)
What is a Taiga or Borreal Forest?
Exists in cold, nutrient rich waters, provides habitat and food source for marine life, and grows a type of seaweed.
What is a kelp forest?
The process that uses light energy, carbon dioxide and water to make energy molecules for the plant
What is photosynthesis?
Plants that are nonvascular and have only a single chloroplast per cell.
What are the hornworts?
Has petals in 4s and 5s, netlike veins in leaves, vascular bundles that form rings, and tap roots
What are dicots?
Biome has warm summers and cold winters with one long wet season, contains evergreen/conifer plant community,
What is a temperate Rain Forest?
strip of land between area of high tide and low tide in the ocean.
What is the intertidal zone?
An opening in the leaf that releases water vapor.
What is a stomata?
plants that have vascular systems, use spores to reproduce and look like tiny pine trees
What are lycopodiophyta (club moses and spike moses)?
A seedling leaf, that first appears upon germinating but latter disappears because it is a storage unit for food for a young plant.
What is a cotyledon?
biome that is warm all year, has tall grasses, and hoofed animals.
What is tropical grassland or savana?
What is the neritic zone?
transports water and nutrients between different parts of the plant
What is the vascular system?
plants that have vascular systems and use spores to reproduce, and have large leaf-like structures called fronds that form from structures called fiddle heads.
What is pteridophyta or ferns?
A protective sheath that protects the shoot and first leaves
What is a coleoptile?
Another name for the biome that surrounds Mediterranean Sea, contains small leafed evergreen shurbs.
What is a chaparral?
Place where a river flows into the ocean.
What is an estuary?
Structure that is responsible for supporting the weight of the plant, and contains lignin.
What is the cell wall?
Plants that are called conifers that do not drop their leaves in the fall.
What is the pinophyta division?
The part of the plant embryo that eventually becomes the roots.
What is the radical?