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100

The plant kingdom is divided into two main groups. Name the two types of plants.

What are vascular and nonvascular plants?

100

This part of the plant soaks up water and nutrients from the soil.

What are roots?

100

This is the green material in leaves that captures the sunlight and helps make food for the plant.

What is chlorophyll?

100

This part of the plant is responsible for the reproduction of angiosperms.

What are flowers?

100

Angiosperms and gymnosperms are two types of plants that reproduce by .....

What are seeds?

100

In simple terms, TROPISMS are ...

What are plant responses?

200

An expert or student in the scientific study of plants.

What is a botanist?

200

This part of the plant carries water and nutrients from the roots to all the parts of the plant.

What is the stem?

200

This is the wide, flat part of the leaf.

What is the blade?

200

What is the specific job the petals of a flower have in the process of pollination?

To attract pollinators.

200

This is the part that covers the seed and protects it.

What is the seed coat?

200

By the experiment we performed, we learned that celery is what type of plant?  BONUS 50 points: What is the name of the transport tube that carry water and nutrients to all parts of the plant?

What is vascular?

BONUS: What is xylem?

300

These types of plants DO NOT have a root system or stem. Bonus 50 points:  Give one example of this kind of plant.

What are nonvascular plants?

What are moss, hornworts or liverworts?

300

There are two types of roots. Name these. Bonus 25 pts. describe the difference.

What are fibrous and tap roots?

300

This is the process plants go through to make their own food.

What is photosynthesis?

300

Pollen is produced by this part of the flower.

What is the stamen (male part)? (Anther and filament).

300

This part of the seed contains all the parts of a baby plant.

What is the embryo?

300

When a plant grows towards the sunlight, we call this...

What is phototropism?

400

There are two types of vascular plants - seeded and seedless. Seedless plants, like ferns, reproduce this way.

What is "by spores"?

400

Roses have this type of stem. This type of stem is covered in bark, like a tree trunk.

What are woody stems?

400

Along with the chlorophyll present in the leaves, name the 3 things plants need in order for photosynthesis to take place.

What are: sunlight, water and carbon dioxide?

400

Describe the two ways in which seed producing plants (angiosperms and gymnosperms) reproduce - describe how the seeds are contained.

Angiosperms reproduce by seeds which form in flowers. Gymnosperms reproduce by seeds which form in cones.

400

This is the part of the seed that provides food for the developing seed.

What are the cotyledons?

400

This is the response in plants that causes the roots to grow downwards.

What is gravitropism?

500

There are two types of seed producing plants. Name these. Bonus: 50 points  Give an example of each.

What are angiosperms and gymnosperms?

Flowering plants (roses, lilys, lemon tree)

Cone-producing plants (evergreens, pine, spruce, fir)

500

This type of stem is soft, smooth and green, like that of a bean plant.

What are herbaceous stems?

500

As a result of photosynthesis, plants release THIS through their leaves ...

What is oxygen?

500

Describe how pollination leads to fertilization - what is the process?

A pollinator carries pollen from the stamen (anther) of one flower, to the stigma (pistil) of the next flower. The pollen lands on the stigma and travels down the style to the ovary where seeds begin to form.

500

This is the process that takes place when a seed takes in water from the soil, grows roots, a shoot develops, and then leaves begin to grow.

What is germination?

500

What is the plant response to touch called?

thigmotropism