Kinds of Plants
System of microscopic tubes in a vascular plant that carries water and nutrients from the roots to the rest of the plant.
What are the xylem?
Plant cells are able to produce glucose for food because they contain these organelles.
What are choroplasts?
All animals with a backbone.
What are vertebrates?
Trout and seahorse are examples of these.
What are vertebrate fish?
Invertebrate parasite that attaches to an animals heart.
What is heartworm?
Mosses and glove wort are examples of these types of plants.
What is non-vascular?
In photosynthesis, in addition to glucose, this is produced.
What is oxygen?
All animals without a backbone.
What are invertebrates?
Crocodiles and snakes are examples of these.
What are vertebrate reptiles?
Invertebrate parasite that attaches to an animal's stomach lining.
What is a tapeworm?
System of microscopic tubes in a vascular plant that carry glucose from the leaves to the rest of the plant.
What are the phloem?
In addition to sunlight, this is required for photosythesis.
What is carbon dioxide?
All animals need this to survive in addition to food, water and air.
What is shelter?
Flamingos and penguins are examples of these.
What are vertebrate birds?
Only 5% of all animals on earth have one.
What is a backbone?
All plants with roots are this type of plant.
What is vascular?
When a tree is cut down, these are visible rings in the cross-section.
What are annual rings?
Animals with 8 legs and molt.
What is an arachnid?
Animals that regulate body temperature by eating food.
What are warm blooded?
Live on the ocean floor, draws in water through pores then pushes it out through tubes in order to get oxygen.
What is a basket sponge?
The three ways that all plants reproduce.
What are seeds, cones and spores?
Microscopic pores in a plant's leaves that allow oxygen to enter and carbon dioxide to leave.
What are the guard cells and the stomata?
The process in which an animal's body shape changes dramatically as it grows.
What is metamorphosis?
Animals that regulate their body temperature with the environment.
What is cold blooded?
In the life cycle of a butterfly, the stage before the butterfly emerges.
What is the chrysalis stage?