Protists
Fungi
Soil
Mosses and Ferns
Gymnosperms and Angiosperms
100
The domain that all protists are in
What is Eukarya?
100
Fungal filaments
What are hyphae? Mycelia is also acceptable
100
This essential mineral is a key component of proteins and chlorophyll in plants
What is nitrogen?
100
Mosses, liverworts and hornworts are in the group often called
What is bryophytes?
100
Where gametophytes develop in gymnosperms.
What are Cones?
200
The protist groups that are the closest relatives of plants
What are red algae and green algae?
200
Strong flexible polysaccharide found in fungal cell walls
What is chitin?
200
Fertile toposoil composed of sand, silt, and clay
What is loam?
200
Ferns, like other plants, have this type of life cycle.
What is alternation of generations?
200
The dominant phase of the lifecycle in gymnosperms and angiosperms.
What is the sporophyte?
300
How mitochondria and plastids are thought to have originated
What is endosymbiosis?
300
Haploid structures that can be carried long distances by wind in sexual or asexual reproduction
What are spores?
300
Influences soil's mineral availability by affecting cation exchange
What is soil pH?
300
Significance of peatlands
What is they store a large amount of carbon, important in climate change?
300
The stamen of a flower is made up of these
What are the anther and the filament?
400
Protists that combine photosynthesis and heterotrophic nutrition
What are mixotrophs?
400
A fungal infection in an animal by a fungal parasite
What is mycosis?
400
These plants grow onto other plants, but are not parasites
What are epiphytes?
400
Most seedless vascular plants have this type of spore production
What is homosporous?
400
A challenge to life on land that seeds and pollen help overcome.
What is protection from drying out and no need for water for fertilization?
500
What are diatoms?
500
What are lichens?
500
These prokaryotes convert atmospheric nitrogen into a form that is usuable by plants
What are nitrogen-fixing bacteria?
500
The type of leaves that most vascular plants have
What are megaphyll leaves?
500
The oldest fossils of an extant lineage of gymnosperms occur at this point in the fossil record.
What is 305 MYA?