Vocab
Leaf of a fern
What is Frond
What is biennial.
What is the scientific name for nonvascular seedless plants?
Diffusion of Water
What is osmosis
Organic compound made of chains of glucose molecules
What is cellulose
What are the functions of chloroplasts?
What is to convert light energy to chemical energy.
The plants that humans eat are _____________.
What are angiosperms.
A tulip flowers during one season and then dies back and is dormant in the bulb until the next season. This continues every year unless something damages the bulb. This is an example of ___________.
What is a perennial.
Waxy, protective layer that slows the evaporation of water from a plant's surface.
Structure that anchors a nonvascular seedless plant to a surface.
What are the three different ways plants are classified?
What is:
1. Vascular/Nonvascular
2. Seed/Seedless
3. Gymnosperms/Angiosperms
Cycads are a type of gymnosperms that usually grow in __________ ___________.
What are tropical regions.
Monocots do not have ____________.
What is vascular tissue in bundles in rings.
Composed of tubelike cells that transport water and nutrients in some plants.
What is vascular tissue
Small opening in the epidermis of a leaf
What is stoma
How do seedless plants produce?
Coal and oil are commonly used as a power source. These fossil fuels came from the remains of _________ plants
What are Vascular.
What are two ways that angiosperms can spread their seeds?
What are
1. Wind
2. Water
3. Catching a ride on a critter
Layer of plant tissue that produces new vascular tissue and grows between xylem and phloem.
What is cambium
Plant vascular tissue that carries water and dissolved nutrients from the roots to the stem and the leaves.
What is xylem.
What does a seed contain?
The animal kingdom classifies animals by phyla. The plant kingdom uses ___________ to classify plants.
What is Divisions
How can rhizoids be used to expand a plant?