Plant Basics
Four things plants need to grow.
What are water, air, sunlight, and soil?
What is another name for flowering plants?
Angiosperms
What number of seed leaves do monocots have?
one
How many seed leaves dicots have?
two
What are fossils?
The remains or traces of past life found in rock.
What are the two main groups of plants?
Seed plants and non‑seed plants.
What are the two groups of flowering plants.
Monocots and Dicots
What type of leaf shape monocots have?
Narrow leaves .
What type of leaf shape dicots have?
Broad
In which type of rock where most fossils are found?
Sedimentary rock
Name the part of a plant from which a new plant can grow.
The seed
Flowering plants are grouped by this feature.
The number of seed leaves (cotyledons)
What is the vein pattern in monocot leaves?
parallel
What is the vein pattern in dicot leaves?
Branching, network
What is the name of scientists that study fossils?
paleontologists
What are seed plants?
Plants that grow new plants from seeds.
What are the first leaves that appear when a plant grows?
cotyledons (seed leaves)
What is the number of flower parts in monocots?
multiples of 3s
What number of petals do dicot have?
multiples of 4 or 5s
What are examples of fossil remains?
Preserved body parts like bones, teeth, and shells.
What do we call plants like moss and ferns that grow from spores?
Non-seed plants
Pine trees have these instead of flowers.
cones
What is one example of a monocot plant?
What are corn and grasses?
(Also accepted: banana, orchids, rice, onions)
Two examples of dicot plants.
Answers may vary
What is excavation?
The digging up of remains of past organisms.