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  1. what is stomata
    small openings in the surface of most plant leaves
  2. what is a vascular plant
    has specialized tissues for transporting water and nutrients
  3. what is a angiosperm
    produces flowers and develops fruits
  4. what is a gymsperm
    produce seeds that are not part of fruit
  5. what is a cone
    structure in the most conifers or Cyclades that cantons reductive structures
  6. What are rhiszoids
    produces seeds that are not part of a fruit
  7. Plant and animal cells have many of the same _______
    including
    1.
    2.
    3.
    Organelles

    • 1.  nucleus
    • 2.  mitochondria
    • 3.  ribosomes
  8. What do plant cells contain that animal cells do not contain?

    What are they used for?
    corplas

    organelles that make food
  9. What is a plant cell surrounded by?

    What does it do?
    Cell wall

    Helps protect and support it
  10. What is a rhizoid
    rootlike structures that anchor a plant without transport tissue to a surface
  11. What happens during photosynthesis?
    Light energy is converted into the chemical energy stored in sugar inside corplas in plant leaves
  12. Through __________________ water vapor, carbon dioxide, and oxygen pass into and out of plant leaves
    Stomata
  13. What are 3 examples of vascular seedless plants?
    • Ferns
    • Horsetails
    • Club mosses
  14. Ferns have leaves called ____________ that grow from an underground stem called a ___________.
    • fronds
    • silica
  15. Plants that produce seeds that are not part of a fruit are called
    gymnosperm
  16. The most common gymnosperms are ____________
    conafers
  17. Conifers are usually evergreen and have needlelike or scalelike leaves, and most produce _______ that contain ______
    • Cone
    • seeds
  18. Characteristic of gymnosperms
    nonflowering seed plants
  19. Characteristic of Mosses
    nonvascular plants
  20. Produce seeds in cones
    flowering seed plants
  21. Use vascular tissue to transport materials
    • nonflowering seed plants
    • flowering seed plants
    • nonvascular seed plants
  22. What happens during photosynthesis
    plants absorb light energy from the Sun and convert it into chemical energy
  23. How do organisms get the energy they need for life processes?
    By using cellular respiration which the release of energy from food
  24. What do choloplasts contain and what is it for?
    • cholophil
    • absorbs light energy
  25. What is transpiration
    the release of water vapor from stomata in leaves
  26. What is a stimulus
    any change in an organism's environment that causes a response
  27. Examples of external stimuli
    • light
    • touch
    • gravity
  28. Examples of internal stimuli
    chemicals (hormones) that a plant produces
  29. What is tropism?
    plant growth toward or away from an external stimulus
  30. What is a plant's response to touch
    tropism
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