Plants
What domain and kingdom are all plants in?
Domain Eukarya, and Kingdom Plantae.
What are examples of a flowering seed plant?
Angiosperms: Most plants are angiosperms, they have vascular tissue, seeds, and flowers.
What is adaptation?
Adaptation is getting used to your enviornment.
What are autotrophs?
Autotrophs make their own food.
What does the cardiovascular system include?
The heart, blood vessels, and blood.
What are characteristics that all plants have?
They all have cell walls in their cells made up of cellulose, they all have chlorophyll, and they are all autotrophs.
What is pollination?
Pollination is when pollen reaches the female part of a flower.
What is natural selection?
Natural selection is when traits are passed down to the offspring.
What are Heterotrophs?
Heterotrophs eat other organisms.
Fill in the blanks:
The ___ is a very muscular organ that pumps ___ throuout the ___
The heart is a very muscular organ that pumps blood throughout the body.
What are vascular plant characteristics?
Vascular plants have a type of tissue called xylem, they all have phloem which is a tissue, they all have leaves, stems, and roots.
What is evolution?
Evolution is the process of organisms changing slowly.
What are the four types of consumers, and what do they eat?
Herbivore: Only eats plants
Carnivore: Meat eaters
Omnivores: Meat and plant eaters
Decomposers: Eat dead organisms
What are blood vessles?
Blood vessels are tubes that transport blood.
What is a seedless plant?
A seedless plant is a vascular or nonvascular plant that use spores to reproduce instead of seeds.
What are biotic factors?
Biotic factors are living things in an ecosystem.
What is an energy pyramid?
An energy pyramid is a ranking of organisms from least powerful to most.
What are arteries?
Arteries are large blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart.
What are examples of a naked seed plant?
A Gymnosperm: Have seeds but no flower or fruit, the most common type is a conifer
Female cone: Grow near top of tree, grow seeds on scales.
Male cone: Don't have seeds in scales but make pollen.
What are abiotic factors?
Abiotic factors are nonliving factors in an ecosystem.
What is the 10% Rule?
The 10% rule is that about 90% of energy is used by organisms at each level of the food chain.
What are veins?
Veins are blood vessels that carry blood to the heart.