Plant Classifications
What is a plant?
A living thing that can make its own food.
What five things do plants need to stay alive?
They need sunlight, water, soil, carbon dioxide, and space.
What is the outermost part of a flower?
The sepals.
During which process is pollen transferred from the “male” part of the plant to the “female” part of the plant?
Pollination
Why do plants have environmental adaptations?
To help them survive in dry, cold, and aquatic environments.
What are the four major types of plants?
They are the nonvascular plants, seedless vascular plants, cone-bearing plants (gymnosperms), and flowering plants (angiosperms).
Where do plants extract water and other nutrients?
From the soil.
The stamen consists of two parts, which plant structure is produces pollen?
The anther.
What process describes fusion of pollen with female reproductive cells?
Fertilization
Fill in the blank: During winter, flowering plants become ______ to conserve their energy.
dormant
Which type of plant is the most primitive?
Nonvascular plants
Which three things do plants need to make their own food (sugar)?
They need sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide.
Name the three plant structures of the pistil.
The stigma, style, and ovary.
How can a plant disperse its seeds?
By water, wind, animals, and gravity.
Why do plants have defense adaptations?
For protection against animals that may consume them.
Which type of plant produces seeds that are protected by a fleshy tissue called fruit?
Flowering plants
Name the process in which plants make their own food (sugar).
Photosynthesis
Which plant structure are the seeds produced?
The ovary produces seeds.
Most plants don't produce seeds, what kind of reproductive structure do nonvascular and seedless vascular plants produce?
They produce spores (a simple structured reproductive cell).
How do plants adapt to help protect themselves from disease?
Which plant has a triangular shape to bear the weight of snow during winter?
Cone-bearing plants
Where does photosynthesis occur?
It occurs in the leaves.
They contain ovules, the female reproductive cells or gametes.
Which process refers to the emergence of plant from the seed?
Germination
Which plant defense adaptation causes a skin rash in humans?