Purpose & Design of Flowers
From a Pollen to a Seed
Seeds and Stuff
Plant Familia's
Look at 'em Leaves
To Stem or not to Stem
Mystery (not hard questions)
100

The organ from which fruits develop.

What is an ovary?

100

The process of transfer of pollen from the stamen to the top of the pistil.

What is Pollination?

100

The scientific term for plants that produce seeds covered by a flower

What is an angiosperm?

100

Produce fruits called grains

What is the grass family?

100

The place where the leaf attaches to the stem

What is a node?

100

Growth in length

What is Primary Growth?

100

The food making process of plants

What is photosynthesis?

200

What is letter C. on this diagram?

What is the ovary?

200

The part of the plant embryo that develops into the root system 

What is a radicle?

200

The first step of germination

What is swelling of the seed with water?

200

Produce fruits called legumes

What is the Pea family?

200

Kind of leaf venation is shown here

What is pinnate leaf venation?

200

The plants that have non-woody stems

What are herbaceous plants?

200

An underground structure made up of thick, fleshy leaves surrounding a very short stem.

What is a bulb?

300

The part of the stamen that produces the pollen.

What is an anther?

300

The part of the plant embryo that develops into the shoot system 

What is a plumule?

300

A plant that needs two growing seasons to complete its life cycle.

What is a biennial plant? 
300

Most important group of plants

What is the grass family?

300

A leaf type that has more than one blade join to the petiole

What is a compound leaf?

300

Kind of vascular tissue carries water and nutrients from the root hairs upward through the roots and stems to the leaves

What is Xylem tissue?

300

The tiny one celled reproductive structures found on plants such as ferns

What are spores?

400

What is letter A. on this diagram

What is the style?

400

The type of seed dispersal that requites an outside factor to disperse seeds.

What is agent dispersal? 

400

Zonk!

-400

Wait this is supposed to be Jeopardy??!!

400

Square and stout stems with flowers usually arranged in spikes

What is the mint family?

400

Kind of leaf venation is shown here

What is parallel leaf venation?

400

Answer Gilbert's riddle or lose 400 points!

A goose between two geese,
And a goose ahead of two geese,
And a goose behind two geese:
How many geese were there?

What are three geese?

400

Kind of plant reproduction does not involve flowers, seeds, or fruits

What is vegetative reproduction?

500

The part of a flower that attracts pollinators.

What are petals?

500

After a pollen grain reaches the flower, the pollen grains tunnel through the style by creating a  ___________________.

What is a pollen tube?

500

What happens to the cotyledons after the seedling no longer takes nutrients from them?

What is: They shrivel up and fall off

500

Most members have woody stems and fleshy fruits; flower parts in multiples of five and cup shaped blossoms with white pink or rose-colored petals

What is the Rose Family?

500

Zonk!!

-500 

Unless you can get my riddle!

Trees are my home, but I never go inside. When I fall off a tree, I am dead. What am I?

What is a leaf?

500

The storage cells that surround a root's transport tubes

What is the Cortex?

500

Plant process only occurs during the daytime

What is photosynthesis?

600

What is letter B. on this diagram?

What is the style?

600

Type of dispersal that requires the plan to have a build-in exploding structural gizmo to disperse the seeds.

What is mechanical dispersal?

600

A young plant that is able to survive without its cotyledon

What is a seedling?

600

 Also called crowfoot family because of their leaf shape that resembles a bird’s foot

What is the buttercup family?

600

What type of leaf arrangement is this?

What is opposite leaf arrangement?

600

Water and dissolved chemicals are absorbed through the cell membrane of the root hairs by what process?

What is osmosis?

600

A creeping stem that grows along the surface of the ground in most grass plants.

What is a stolon?

700

The leaf-like structures at the base of a flower’s petals.

What are sepals?

700

The three main parts of a seed include

What is a embryo, endosperm, and seed coat?

700

The two flowers that make up a composite flower

What are disk and ray flowers?


BONUS for an Extra 200 Points!!

Describe each one and its purpose.

700

Type of plants that help return nitrogen into the soil

What is the Pea Family? 

OR 

What are legumes?

700

Leaves that attach directly to the stem

What are sessile leaves? 

700

 The upward force in the transport tubes produced by water entering the root hairs

What is Root pressure?
700

Plants without vascular systems

What are Bryophytes? 

800

 The primary purpose of flowers is...

What is allowing for plant reproduction? 

800

The German botanist that is known for discovering many complex details of plant reproduction

Who is Christian Konrad Sprengel?

800

Member of the parsley family that is also known as wild carrot

What is Queen Anne's Lace?

800

Monocots that have tepals and inferior ovaries and grow from bulbs, corms, or rhizomes

What is the Amaryllis family?

800

Describe this leaf margin.

What is lobed leaf margin?

800

The main force that brings water up a plant's transport tubes

What is Transpiration?

800

The little green structures within plant cells

What are chloroplasts?