1. 2nd 9 Weeks Study Guide Questions and Answers

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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.

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. 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
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11. 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

12. 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