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05/05/2009

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Term
What is not an Algae?
Definition
a. Rhodophyta
b. Pheaophtya
c. Flilicinedo (Fern)*
d. Chlorophyte
Term
What are Angiosperms responsible for?
Definition
Flowering plants
Term
Which of these are not a Traceophta?
Definition
a. Fililcinedo
b. Coniteri
c. Angiosperms
d. Bryophta (moss)*
Term
What is an important aspect of Microbiology?
Definition
Agar (brown Algae)
Term
Which is not a characteristic of plants?
Definition
a. Store carbohydrates
b. Have chloroplast
c. Mutlicellular
d. Alternation of Generations
e. All of them *
Term
What is capable of breaking up rock and soil?
Definition
Mosses
Term
What does Xylem do?
Definition
Moves nutrients from the roots to the leaves
Term
What does the Phloem do?
Definition
Moves nutrients from the leaves to the roots
Term
What are Xylem and Phloem are related to?
Definition
Vascular Plants
Term
Which of these is not a characteristic of Algae?
Definition
a. all cells photosynthetic
b. vascular tissue*
c. Lack of supporting tissues
d. No roots/ leaves
e. All pigmented
Term
In angio sprems, what are roots typically in?
Definition
the ground
Term
Which root has numerous branches?
Definition
a. Fibrous root system *
b. Tap root
c. Tree root
d. Fibrous-Tap root
Term
Which reproductive organs are important in making a complete flower?
Definition
Pistil and Stamen
Term
Which is not a characterisic of a permanent tissue?
Definition
a. Support
b. Protect
c. Cell division*
d. Storage
e. Photosynthesis
Term
What is not a characteristic of Meristematic tissues?
Definition
a. Divide and make more cells
b. Determine height of plant or stem
c. Tip of the root growth
d. Carry out photosynthesis *
e. Optical merisline
Term
What outer layer at times have root hairs on the bear tips?
Definition
Epidermis
Term
What has an increased surface area of water in the root?
Definition
Root hairs
Term
Which one of these is not part of a stem?
Definition
a. Bark
b. Cortex
c. Cork
d. Vascular Rays*
e. Cambium
Term
What is main protector against fire and insects in a stem?
Definition
Cork
Term
What kind of wood is the largest?
Definition
Vascular rays
Term
On Christmas, what type of wood would you want to put in your house?
Definition
Soft wood
Term
What kind of wood has full vessels?
Definition
Vascular rays
Term
In the Angiosperm Embryo what contains only one Cotyledon?
Definition
Monocotyledon
Term
What would a shrub be classified as?
Definition
Dicotyledonous
Term
What type of soil is better to have?
Definition
Both small and large soil
Term
What is the perfect acidity in soil?
Definition
5.5-6
Term
What do water plants have access to?
Definition
Capillary water
Term
What happens if soil is too compressed?
Definition
A plant dies
Term
What does soil need large quantities of?
Definition
Macronutrients
Term
Between Macro/Micronutrients, which is easier to control?
Definition
Micronutrients
Term
What refers to water evaporating from leaves and water being drawn up from the ground?
Definition
Transpiration
Term
What is the Auxin not responsible for?
Definition
a. Causes cellular cognations
b. Preveleaves and fruit from fallingnts
c. Stimulates fruit development
d. Stimulates root growth
e. Causes buds to open*
Term
What hormone is responsible for buds opening and flowers forming?
Definition
Gibberellins
Term
What hormone works closely with Auxin?
Definition
Herbicides
Term
What refers to a "Fruit ripening hormone"?
Definition
Ethylene
Term
What hormone could kill plants?
Definition
Herbicides
Term
Which of these things is not part of the effectiveness of hormones?
Definition
a. Penetration
b. Must go through epidermis of rod
c. Plan must not be able to digest her
d. Capacity of the plant to regenerate when injured
e. All of these
f. None of these*
Term
What is the study of interaction of organisms with one another with the physical environment?
Definition
Ecology
Term
All organisms, land, or water that occur in the air about the earth
Definition
Biosphere
Term
What is a population that interacts with one another?
Definition
Community
Term
What is a group of organisms of a single species in a definite area?
Definition
Population
Term
What is an organisms address?
Definition
Habitat
Term
What is the fundamental role and position in a community?
Definition
Niche
Term
What are two different species that cannot occupy the same niche?
Definition
Gause's principal of competitive exclusion
Term
The size of a population depends on all of the following except for what?
Definition
a. Birth
b. Death
c. Immigration
d. Migration
e. Fire*
Term
Which of the following is not an A-Botic factor of population?
Definition
a. Water
b. Temperature
c. Light
d. Mineral
e. Fire
f. Natural Barriers*
Term
Which of the following is not a Biotic of population?
Definition
a. Natural Barriers
b. Competition
c. Predation
d. Mutualism
e. Fire*
Term
What is the conversion of radiant energy to usable chemical energy?
Definition
Primary productivity
Term
What refers to the amount of energy produced by plants that limits factors for other life?
Definition
Photosynthesis
Term
What positions do organisms occupt in relation to primary producer?
Definition
Tropic levels
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