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| What trees do not bear flowers and their seeds encased in fruits? |
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| cone-bearing trees--or conifers |
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| What 2 types of cones do conifers produce? |
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What are some of the characteristics of a conifer tree? |
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| Huge trees with tiny leaves, they are diciduous, they grow tall. Has an active bud. They have needles and scales. |
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| What are some characteristics of a broadleaf tree? |
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they have a full, rounded top, or crown. They grow outward and upward. they are bushy and able to shade large areas. |
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| What are some different pine trees? |
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| Pine, eastern white pine, ponderosa pine, pinyon pine, |
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| black spruce, and the white spruce, blue spruce |
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| balsam fir, Douglas firs, |
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What is the tallest tree in the world? |
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| How long does it take the Redwood to grow |
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| it takes hundreds and hundreds of years to reach its height. |
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What is the Giant Seqoia? |
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| is the largest of all trees. |
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| How old is the General Sherman tree? |
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| it can be around 3500 year old and its 272 feet tall and 36 feet across. it contains 50,000 cubic feet of woods. Weighing about 1000 tons. |
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| What is the bald cypress? |
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| Its a water loving tree that can be found growing in the swamps, shallow lakes and lagoons. The base is submerged in water. |
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| the roots projecting out of the water are called humps. What do they call them ? |
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| knees-they supply oxygen to the waterlogged roots. |
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| The bald cypress is an unusual tree because it is a what kind of tree? |
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| deciduous conifer-it loses it needles in the fall. |
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| What kind of leaves do cypress family have? |
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| scaly leafed tree or shrub growing |
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| What kind of plant does not bear seed but does have roots and leaves? Give the name for its roots? |
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| rhizoids--they grow downward from the underside of the stem |
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what are the leaves from a fern called? |
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| The leaves are called fronds--they grow upward from the upper side of the stem. |
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Which type of plant does not have roots or true leaves, but grow from slender thread of onnected cells? |
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spores, they grow sideways instead of upward, they spread over a rock, root or tree trunk. They can be found in the tropics and in the Artic. |
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| Why are mosses important? |
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| They hold soil so that it doesnot wash away. They also help other plants by keping the soil moist. When they die they mosses enrich the soil. |
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| What is the structure of a Moss plant? |
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| There is the rhizoids, leaf, stem, and capsule |
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| Where can algae be found? |
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| All over the world, they live in soil, on trees and sometimes on the bodies of turtles and frogs. |
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The world smallest green plants belong to what group of plants? |
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| They are made of only one cell, they are beutiful little plants that live in damp soil as well as in poinds, lakes, and oceans. They can be oblong, triangular, square, or starshaped, |
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| What happens when diatoms die? |
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| Their glassy cases collect in the soil or fall to the ocean floor, forming a substance called diatomite. Its used in scouring powders, toothpastes and filters. |
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| what is a Dinoflagelltes? |
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| a one celled alga, resemble both animals and plants. they move about from place to place. they have chlorophyll and carry on photsynthesis, when the water is just right they bloom that turns the water red. |
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Plant of which family do not contain chloropyll? list five varieties of fungi we have studied? |
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| mold, mildew, and mushrooms, yeast, rust, smuts and slime molds |
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| What is fungi that feed on dead matter are called? |
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| What is a fungi called that prefers to fee on living matter? |
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| parasites--its an organism(plant or animal) that gets its nourishement by attaching itself to another organism and continuously taking in that organisms body fluids. |
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| Give the name for the large spore forming structure called? |
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| its a single-celled fungus that converts sugar into alcohol and carbon dioxide. |
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| What type of plant is actually a combination of fungi and algae? |
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| a large spore-forming cell |
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| a fungus that often grows on wet clothes, showers, plants |
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| spores, spore case, hyphae |
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| Not all molds are harmful--what drug is made from one mold? |
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| Other molds are used to make milk solids(curd) into cheese like? |
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| Blue cheese, Roquefort cheese |
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