Plant Systems
The purpose of the waxy cuticle.
What is to protect the leaf against water loss?
The pigment that absorbs light energy during photosynthesis.
What is chlorophyll?
The organelle where aerobic respiration happens.
What is the mitochondria?
Where energy is released from an ATP molecule.
How vascular plants survive on land is due to this.
What is material transport through xylem and phloem?
The balanced equation of photosynthesis.
What is 6CO2 + 6H2O + light --> C6H12O6 + 6O2
The balanced equation of cellular respiration
What is C6H12O6 + 6O2 --> 6H20 + 6CO2+ ATP ?
Where gas exchange occurs in a leaf.
What is the stomata on the bottom of the leaf?
The part of the plant absorbs most of the water and minerals taken up from the soil.
What are root hairs?
The two reactions that happen in photosynthesis
What is the light dependent and light independent reactions?
The purpose of cellular respiration.
What is to make ATP and create energy from organic molecules?
What is Auxin?
Conitidions that cause the stomata to close.
What is little available water?
The source of oxygen during photosynthesis.
What is water?
CO2 is given off during this part of cellular respiration
What is the Kreb's Cycle?
______ is a Nonvascular; uses swimming sperm to reproduce plant
_____Vascular; Produces fruits and flowers; has seeds
______Vascular; produces seeds as cones
_____ Vascular; uses spores to reproduce
What is Bryophyte, Angiosperm, Gymnosperm, Pteridophyte
The strucutres in a flower that produce the sperm/egg.
What is the anther and the ovules?
The molecule(s) that moves from the light reactions to the Calvin Cycle
What is ATP and NADPH?
The final electron acceptor in the ETC.
What is oxygen?
Four factors that affect the rate of photosynthesis.
light intensity/color, CO2 levels, Temperature, and Water levels