Terms
Define a Vascular Plant
What is: A plant that possesses a stem comprised of specialized cells for transporting water toward the leaves and nutrients to the roots?
The three basic parts of a vascular plant
What are: Leaves, Roots, and Stem?
The proper tool for trimming leaves and dried pitchers
What is a pair of scissors?
Plant food (simple sugars) are made of these two ingredients
What are Water and Carbon Dioxide?
A plant's first leaf or set of leaves is known as this
What is a seed leaf?
Define the Xylem
What are: Specialized Cells designed to bring water to the leaves of a plant?
What are leaves and stems?
Suitable types of water for carnivorous plants
What is: Rain Water, Distilled Water (or reverse osmosis water)
The reason most plants are green
What is Chlorophyll?
Plant seeds typically wait for these two conditions before sprouting
What is moisture and heat?
Define the Phloem
What are: Specialized Cells designed for driving water and nutrients downward toward the roots of a plant
Describe the structure of a tree stem
What is: It possesses rings, with the outermost rings acting as Phloem and inner rings acting as the Xylem?
Suitable Materials for carnivorous plant pots
What are: Plastic, Glass, or any glazed material
Most plants use this catalyst in order to speed up food production
What is Chlorophyll?
The reason we needed to open the bags once we observe the bean sprout's first true leaves
What is: Allowing the plant access to carbon dioxide?
What is an Ecological Niche?
What is: A set of environmental conditions suitable to a particular plant or animal?
Describe leaf structure on a cellular level, specifically the leaf surface cells and the veins.
What is: Cells on the surface of the leaf are specialized for food production while cells making up the veins are specialized for transportation?
Minimum amount of light for Carnivorous plants
What is eight Hours?
Plants require this in order to burn energy
What is Oxygen?
What is Light and Gravity?
The definition of Catalyst
What is: Something that speeds up a chemical reaction but is not used up in the process?
Describe the three main functions of the roots
What are: Providing an anchor for the plant, obtaining water, and obtaining nutrients?
The reason why carnivorous plants have the ability to catch insects
What is Self-fertilizing, due to naturally living in environments with nutrient-poor soil?
Most plants make their own food. Provide an example (mentioned in class) of an exemption to this general rule.
What is/are: Albino Plants, Parasitic Plants?
Most students saw the first set of seed leaves within this time frame.
What is six days?