2nd 9 Weeks Study Guide Questions and Answers

PLANTS/FLOWERS They have cell walls and chloroplasts. What are the characteristics of plants? ______ ____________________________ What do most plants have some form of? _____ ________________ List examples of nonvascular plants. _______ ____________________ What are the main parts of the plants reproductive system? _________________ roots, stems, and leaves. moss, hornwort, and liverwort xylem and phloem

breathing, eating, clothing, medicine, and housing Why do humans need plants? _________ _________________________________ Plants get their energy from _______. _____ are the plant structures that anchor the plant. _____________is the process that uses light to turn carbon dioxide and water into sugar. sunlight Roots Photosynthesis

Sunflowers, Douglas Fir, Apple, Pine, and Redwood Trees, etc. In what direction do water and nutrients move through a plant? ____________ In what direction do sugars move through a plant? ___________ Which type of plant produces seeds but the seeds are not protected by a fruit? _____________________ List examples of a vascular plant. ________________________________________ ____________________ up down Gymnosperm Sunflowers, Douglas Fir, Apple, Pine, and Redwood Trees, etc.

store food, as a support structure for the plant, move materials between leaves and roots. The functions of a stem are ________________ __________________________________ __________________________________ __________ have one cotyledon inside their seeds while _______ have two cotyledons inside their seeds. Which type of plant produce flowers and have fruit that contain one or more seeds? _______________ Monocots dicots Angiosperm

female reproductive part of the plant stigma, style, and ovary Deciduous ____________ is a type of tree or shrub that shed their leaves annually. Trees that bear cones and evergreen needlelike leaves are _____________ trees. The _________ is the male reproductive part of the plant. What are the names of the individual parts in this system? ________________________ The pistil is the ___________________________ _________. It has three parts. Name them: ________ ________________ coniferous stamen anther and filament female reproductive part of the plant stigma, style, and ovary

ovary stigma Pollination Fertilization This part of the plant produces the seeds and ripens into a fruit. ________ Which female reproductive organ is the sticky part of the plant? __________ ____________ happens when pollen is carried from the stamen to the pistil of a plant. _____________is when the pollen travels down the style into the ovary and joins the egg. It is the beginning stage of reproduction in angiosperms. Germination is _______________________ ___________________________________________ _______. ovary stigma Pollination Fertilization the first stage of plant development where the seed develops into a plant

BODY SYSTEMS support and move the body Digestive Excretory What is the function of the skeletal and muscular systems? __________________________ This system supplies and transports materials and removes wastes from the body. __________ The kidneys, urethra, and urine are important parts of the _________ system. Which body system is considered the body’s control center? ________________ What is its function? ___________________________________________ ____________________ support and move the body Digestive Excretory Nervous System Sends, receives, and processes nerve impulses throughout the body.

It pumps the blood to lungs and rest of the body. part of the nervous system that directs and coordinates all body processes, thoughts, behaviors, and emotions The brain is the ______________________________ ________________________________________ ________________________________. The heart is made up of ________ muscle. Which system supplies O2 and removes CO2 and H2O wastes? ____________ What is the function of the heart within the body? ________________________________________ ______ cardiac Respiratory It pumps the blood to lungs and rest of the body.

exhaling and exchanging gases with blood is for inhaling and exhaling and exchanging gases with blood The function of the lungs _________________ ________________________________________. Describe voluntary muscles: ___________________________________ ____________________ Describe involuntary muscles: ________________ ________________________________________ How many bones are found in an adult skeletal system? _____ Muscles that you can control or can be controlled consciously Muscles that you cannot control or they move unconsciously 206

ECOLOGY Symbiosis is ________________________ ______________________________. Define food chain. _________________________ _________________________________________ ____________________________________ _______________ What is a food web? _______________________ _________________________________ __________ only eat plants. the interaction between two different organisms living together A way of showing how (food) energy passes from one organism to another by a larger (higher) organism eating a smaller (lower) organism. It is a series of overlapping food chains that exist in an ecosystem. Herbivores

During __________ the symbiont lives on/in the host During __________ the symbiont lives on/in the host. The symbiont benefits and the host is harmed. Which organism cannot move and absorbs nutrients from other organisms? ______ Describe the animal kingdom ______________ ________________________________________ ________________________ Give examples: _____________________________ Ecology is the study of ____________________ ____________________________. parasitism Fungi They are many-celled, most can move, and they get energy by consuming other organisms. invertebrates, fish, birds, mammals the interactions among organisms and their environment