Photosynthesis
What three things does a plant need for photosynthesis?
carbon dioxide, water, sunlight
What do vascular plants have that nonvascular plants do not?
Is a tulip an angiosperm or a gymnosperm?
Angiosperm
What forms as pollen transfers from the stigma to the ovary?
Pollen Tube
Name two kinds of plants that we studied the alternation of generations in.
Moss, fern (pine tree, too)
What molecule in plants is responsible for gathering light energy?
Chlorophyll
Is a moss vascular or non-vascular?
non-vascular
What part of the seed nourishes the baby plant?
endosperm
Pollination
What do sporophytes make?
spores
oxygen and glucose
What does the phloem transport?
Glucose/sugars
Is a pine tree an angiosperm or a gymnosperm?
Gymnosperm
When the soil is damp, a seed may burst open as the baby plant starts to grow. What is this process called?
Germination
What makes gametes?
Gametophytes
Where in a plant does photosynthesis occur?
Photosynthesis occurs in the cells of the leaves.
Is a fern vascular or non-vascular?
Vascular
What part of a seed keeps the seed from drying out?
What is the process in which the pollen meets the egg in the ovary of a plant?
fertilization
What does a spore grow into?
gametophyte
What on the leaves allows gases in and out?
stomate/ stomata
What kind of tube transports water and minerals up the stem?
Xylem
What is the part of a seed that becomes the baby plant called?
embryo
What part of a plant's reproductive system is a fruit formed from?
ovary
The heart-shaped structure in a fern's life cycle is called what?
prothallus