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Chapter 11
Plants
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Science
7th Grade
11/16/2008

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Plants are...
Definition
adapted to living on land
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Mosses and Ferns live in
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moist environment
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Seeds and Pollen are
Definition
reproductive adaptations
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Many plants reproduce with
Definition
flowers and fruit
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Vascular Systems
Definition
Long tube like systems that move materials through the plant

Transports materials throughout a plant's body

Sugar is produced in the leaves and transported downward to other parts of the plant

Water and Nutrients enter through the roots and are transported upward to the rest of the plant

Leaves, Stems and Roots
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Transpiration
Definition
The movement of water vaper out of a plant and into the air
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Seed
Definition
is a young plant that is enclosed in a protective coating
Provide protection for the young plants as well as a supply of nutrients
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Embryo
Definition
Is the immature form of an organism that has the potential to grow and develop
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Germination
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is the the beginning of growth for a plant from a spore or a seed
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Pollen
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is a small multicelluar structure that holds sperm cells
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Gymnosperms
Definition
Seed plants that have existed on earth more than 250 million years.
Example: the Pine Tree
Reproduce with pollen and seeds
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Angiosperms
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is a seed plant that produces flower and fruit
Use flowers and fruit to reproduce
Flowers produce pollen as contain the plants reproductive structures
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FLOWER
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is a reproductive structure of the ANGIOSPERM
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FRUIT
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The fertilized ovary of a flower (angiosperm) thickens and become a fruit containing a seed or seeds
Fruit develops after pollenation and contains seeds
Animals eat fruit and transport seeds to new locations
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All plants share common characteristics
Definition
The parts are specialized to get water and nutrients from soil

They are multicellular organisms

A plant cell has a nucleus and is surrounded by a cell wall

Plants are producers. They capture energy from the Sun.

Plant life cycles are divided into two stages or generations.
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Ancestors of present day mosses and ferns
Definition
were among the first land plants
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Mosses are...
Definition
small non vascular plants
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Ferns are...
Definition
larger vascular plants
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carbon dioxide + water + sunlight makes sugars + oxygen =
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photosythesis
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stomata openings at the bottm of a leaf lead to a network of tiny spaces where gases are stored
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cuticle is the waxy surface of a leaf that keeps water from evaporating
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angeion (G)
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vessel or holder
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gymnos (G)
Definition
naked
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sperma (G)
Definition
seed
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germinatus (L)
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sprout
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pollen (L)
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fine flour
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Zylem is a
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tissue that carries water and dissolved nutients up from the roots
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Phloem is a
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tissue that transports energy rich materials dowm from the leaves. Like long hollow pipes
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Root System
Definition
anchors plants to the ground, absorb water and nutrients from the soil
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Shoot System
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stems and leaves reaching to the sun, the leaves use materials transported from the root system and carbon dioxide from the air to make sugars and carbohydrates, which the stems deliver to the rest of the plant
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inside a Leaf
Definition
Cells on the surface produce a waxy CUTICLE that prevents loss of water

CHLOROPLASTS are located in the cells in the upper layer of the leaf

XYLEM transports water and nutrients up fromt he roots

PHOEM transports energy rich compounds down to other parts of the plants

STOMATA are tiny holes on the underside of the leaf that move carbon dioxide and water vapor in and out
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Three functions of plant stems
Definition
transport of materials between it's leaves and roots
long stiff fibers provide support and give plant shape and stems can store sugars and nutrients
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Moss Plants have...
Definition
Capsule, Stalk, Spore
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Moss Plants nonvascular
Definition
Ferns are Vascular
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LIFE CYCLE OF A PINE TREE
Definition
Meiosis - a mature pine tree has male and female cones, meiosis occurs inside the cones producing sperm and egg cells

POLLINATION- male cone releases pollen, which sticks to the scalesof a female cone and a pollen tubes begins to grow

FERTILIZATION- sperm moves through the pollen tube to fertilize one if the egg cells at the base of the female cone scale

SEEDS- each fertilized egg becomes and embryo in a seed. a female cone can contain many seeds
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