Plant Taxonomy
Vocabulary
Diagrams
Plant Behavior
Fungi
100
What is the difference between vascular and non-vascular plants?
Vascular plants have transport vessels to move water and nutrients around the plant, non-vascular plants do not
100
a process in which plants use energy from the Sun to make their own food in the form of glucose (sugar)
Photosynthesis
100
Is this a taproot system or a fibrous root system?
Fibrous
100
Is this an example of a positive tropism or a negative tropism?
Positive tropism
100
Mushrooms reproduce asexually by _________
spores
200
Name all 3 groups of angiosperms
Annuals, biennials, perennials
200
the loss of water vapor by plants
Transpiration
200
What two types of leaves are pictured here?
Compound and simple leaves
200
What tropism is this an example of?
Gravitropism
200
What is this part of the mushroom called?
Gills
300
Name all 3 groups of non-vascular plants
Mosses, hornworts, and liverworts
300
plants break down food molecules into usable energy
Cellular respiration
300
What is the dark, center portion of a woody stem called? (not the very center)
Heartwood
300
Sunflowers following the sun across the sky is an example of..
Solar tracking, phototropism, or positive phototropism
300
The part of the mushroom that grows above ground that produces spores
The fruiting body
400
Name all 3 groups of seedless vascular plants
Ferns, club mosses, horsetails
400
the change in the growth of a plant in response to a stimulus
Tropism
400
What is the bottom part of the leaf called? (1)
Stalk or petiole
400
A Venus fly trap closing around its prey is an example of what?
Nastic movement
400
Network of hyphae that grows underground
Mycelium
500
Name all 4 groups of gymnosperms
Cycads
Ginkgoes
Gnetophytes
Conifers
500
the growth of a plant in response to light
Phototropism
500
Is this a monocot or a dicot plant?
Dicot
500
What tropism is this an example of?
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Thigmotropism
500
Explain why fungi and plants are in different kingdoms
Because fungi cannot produce their own food through photosynthesis