Biology Study Guide CH 22 Plant Diversity (Entire Chapter)
1. What is a plant?
2. List the characteristics of ALL plants.
3. Plants use the energy of sunlight to carry out ____________________________.
4. Without gas exchange, a plant would be unable to make _______________.
5. Plants have adaptations called _______________ that enable them to maximize light absorption.
6. Plants require more water on a ___________________ day.
7. Plants get the water they need from the __________________.
8. Plants can lose water while exchanging _____________ with the atmosphere.
9. Living on land required plants to __________________ water.
10. Bryophytes draw up water by the process of _________________ because they do NOT have highly
specialized ________________ tissue. This causes them to grow ____________ to the ground reaching
only a few centimeters in height.
11. Bryophytes are highly dependant on water and require standing water in order to
_____________________.
12. Because bryophytes do not have vascular tissue, they do not conduct _______________.
13. In liverworts, the structures that produce eggs and sperm look like tiny green ____________________.
14. ________________________ are structures that have functions similar to that of roots.
15. _________________ are the most common bryophtes and are very common in the polar regions. Some
of them form clumps of _________________ growing together.
16. _____________________-the sperm producing structure of a bryophyte._______________-egg
producing structure of a bryophyte.
17. What two types are tissue are contained within the vascular tissue?
18. Xylem and phloem are not present in ____________________.
19. Xylem tissue is important in ferns because it can conduct _____________ over
____________________distances.
20. _____________ mosses are ______________________ vascular plants.
21. __________________ includes a plant embryo, a food supply, and a protective covering.
22. Seed-bearing plants differ from all other plants in that their gametes do not require _________________
for fertilization to occur.
23. The gametophytes of gymnosperms are found inside reproductive structures called ________________.
24. The most ancient surviving seed plants are the _________________.
25. The four groups of gymnosperms are _______________, __________________, _________________,
& ______________________.
26. Angiosperms produce seeds inside protective structures called _________________.
27. What is a monocot? List several examples.
28. The number of seed leaves distinguishes the two classes of ________________________.
29. Unlike a dicot, a monocot has _______________ leaf veins.
30. Flowering plants that complete a life cycle within a single growing season are called
________________.
31. Which type of plant lives the longest?
32. Bryophytes are low growing because they lack _______________________.
33. Bryophytes include _______________, ______________________ and hornworts.
34. ______________ transports solutions of nutrients and carbohydrates produced by photosynthesis.
35. The ____________________ of all plants are made of cellulose.
36. Be able to read a CLADOGRAM and answer questions from it…very similar to the one on page 554
figure 22-6;
37. Why are the roots, stems, and leaves of ferns and their relatives considered to be TRUE?
38. From a monocot/dicot chart…be able to answer several science skill questions…similar to chart on page
570 figure 22-25;