Plant Growth and Adaptations to annoy Cooney and Geary!

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1. Organize all your notes! Maybe highlight the key words or vocab words?

2. Review ALL of this week's handouts! Might also be a good idea to review the handouts from the last chapter!

3. Read and/or review the chapter and take good notes.

4. Bailey says you should be able to define stimulus!

5. Flash thinks you should know the relationship between stimulus and tropisms. Which comes first?

6. Do you know the "job" of the cotyledon(s) in germination?

7. List a few ways that plants have adapted to conserve water.

8. Can weather, especially severe weather, play a role in seed dispersal? If so, how?

9. Offspring of a parent plant will be identical to the parent if grown
a. asexually
b. sexually

c. in Maine

d. None of the above

10. How do plants reproduce sexually?

11. When plants reproduce sexually are the offspring genetically exactly the same?

12. List 4 ways that plants reproduce asexually.

13. Vegetative propagation - neat word or what! Define the term and give 5 examples.

14. Is vegetative propagation a form of sexual or asexual reproduction?

15. Review the "cool" words from the last chapter on Introduction to Plants.
16. Review the major points of meiosis and mitosis.

17. Review the different types or classes of life on the energy flow pyramid.

18. Review liquid metric measurement.

19. Egg (or Ovule) + Sperm (or Pollen) = _________ Hint: letter 26

20. Organelle wise, what are the differences between a plant cell and animal cell?

21. When pollen from a like species plant is transferred to the ___________ of another flower, the process is called _________________.

22. Why is seed dispersal so important to plants?

23. List 3 limiting factors that Ms. Sabonis has growing turnip and lima bean plants in her living room.

24. While shopping for a totally new outfit, Richard remarked that everyone should be able to define and understand the word dormant.

25. Can some seeds survive a fire? Why is this important to some plants?

26. Brandon thinks you all should review the parts of a seed embryo.

27. List 6 ways that various plant species have evolved to disperse their seeds.

28. When you plant a seed in the ground, where does the energy come from that the seed uses to sprout and get the first leaves up and photosynthesizing?

29. List 5 ways that plants have adapted to protest themselves from animal aggressors.

30. I would know the many plant tropisms we talked about in class.

31. Write a short paragraph on the value and usefulness of the infamous Typo Police.

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Time-lapse plant videos:

• http://youtube.com/watch?v=VCRx0EFhCoc&feature=related


• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYjcF7LsdtM&NR=1


• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nltt_jS0Rzg&NR=1

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