Science Exam Review
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- non vascular plant
- moss
- secondary consumer
- eats consumer
- Xylem
- the tissue that moves the water, Vascular subsystem that carries water upward.
- legumes
- group of plants that include beans and peas
- runoff
- When water travels along the surface of the Earth
- Phloem
- the tissue that moves food/sugar
- carbohydrates
- the starches and sugars present in foods
- transpiration
- the emission of water vapor from the leaves of plants
- ovules
- Structure that develops within ovary of seed plant and contains female gametophyte.
- double helix
- a pair of parallel helices intertwined about a common axis
- sepal
- one of the green parts that form the calyx of a flower
- evaporation
- the process of extracting moisture
- Shoot System
- steams and leaves
- Photosynthesis
- uses sunlight to give energy to plants
- decomposer
- eats and breaks down dead matter
- Soft stem plant
- wild flowers
- Fern
- non vascular plant
- fruit
- the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant
- centromere
- a specialized condensed region of each chromosome that appears during mitosis where the chromatids are held together to form an X shape
- base pairs
- audine, thymine, cytosine, guine
- food web
- (ecology) a community of organisms where there are several interrelated food chains
- ecosystem
- a system formed by the interaction of a community of organisms with their physical environment
- frond
- leaf of a fern
- style
- (botany) the narrow elongated part of the pistil between the ovary and the stigma
- compaction
- sediment squished together
- kilo
- 1,000
- receptacle
- enlarged tip of a stem that bears the floral parts
- petal
- part of the perianth that is usually brightly colored
- trees
- vascular plant
- precipitaion
- moistuire that falls from the sky
- combustion
- a process in which a substance reacts with oxygen to give heat and light
- stomata
- let carbon dioxide in and oxygen out
- ecology
- the branch of biology concerned with the relations between organisms and their environment
- scavenger
- any animal that feeds on refuse and other decaying organic matter
- spores
- single-celled reproductive bodies highly resistant to cold and heat damage; capable of new organisms
- angiosperm
- a plant that produces fruit in flowers
- flower
- reproductive organ of angiosperm plants especially one having showy or colorful parts
- Root
- anchors plant to ground and absorbs water and nutrients from the soil
- protein
- any of a large group of nitrogenous organic compounds that are essential constituents of living cells
- stigma
- the apical end of the style where deposited pollen enters the pistil
- lipids
- What is the name of the fatty substance that is found in the epidermis and works to waterproof the skin?
- chromosomes
- thread like structures that have genetic info that is passed down from one generation to the next
- cuticle
- hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtles
- primary consumer
- eats producer
- germination
- the origin of some development
- stamen
- the male reproductive organ of a flower
- food chain
- (ecology) a community of organisms where each member is eaten in turn by another member
- ovary
- the organ that bears the ovules of a flower
- autotrophs
- algea
- gymnosperm
- a plant that produces seeds but not flowers
- anther
- the part of the stamen that contains pollen
- wood stem plant
- tree bark
- tertiary consumer
- consumer that eats secondary consumers
- pistil
- the female ovule-bearing part of a flower composed of ovary and style and stigma
- filament
- the stalk of a stamen
- vascular system
- the vessels and tissue that carry or circulate fluids such as blood or lymph or sap through the body of an animal or plant