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Hydroponics Review
1. Would the following be classified as soil?
a.
b.
c.
d.
Dirt
Concrete
Crumbling rock
Sand
2. What 4 things is soil made out of?
3. What is the starting material for soil?
4. Where does organic material in soil come from? What is its purpose?
5. What type of soil is ideal for agriculture?
6. Label the following layers of soil:
7. What is the ideal acidity for soil?
8. What happens when soil is too acidic?
9. What is the difference between macro and micronutrients?
Nutrient
How does the plant get it?
(Circle all that apply)
Air
C
water
H
Air
water
soil
O
Air
water
soil
soil
Why is it important?
N
Air
water
soil
P
Air
water
soil
S
Air
water
soil
Ca
Air
water
soil
Mg
Air
water
soil
K
Air
water
soil
10. Identify the missing nutrient(s) for each of the plants:
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A plant that cannot transport water because it can’t open its stomata? ________________
A plant that produce soft and rotten fruits because it cannot build cell walls? ___________
a. A plant that has yellow leaves because it can’t make chlorophyll?
b.
c.
11. How do nutrients get into the soil in nature?
12. what type of fertilizer is cheap, but pollutes ground water?
13. What type of fertilizer is expensive but is better for the environment?
14. What is the difference between Hydroponics and airoponics?
15. Why would someone need to grow a living wall?
16. Identify the common name of the following groups of plants and what trait they evolved to become the next group:
Bryophytes:
Common
Name:
Trait:
Seedless
vascular
plants
Common
Name:
Trait:
17. Is pollen the male sporophyte or gametophyte?
18. What two groups of plants reproduce through spores?
19. What two groups of plants reproduce through seeds?
Gymnosperms:
Common
Name:
Trait:
Angiosperms:
Common
Name:
20. What has happened to the size of the gametophyte generation of plants as they evolved?
21. What does the gametophyte generation of a plant produce?
22. What does the sporophyte generation of a plant produce?
23. What is the difference between human reproduction and plant reproduction?
24. What are the three plant organs?
25. What is the purpose of Roots?
26. What is the purpose of stems?
27. What is the purpose of leaves?
28. What 3 tissues are contained in all roots stems and leaves?
29. What organ contains ground tissue that is packed with chloroplasts?
30. What do guard cells do?
31. What happens to the guard cells when there is not enough internal water pressure?
32. What is the purpose of the cuticle on a leaf?
33. What are three ways water moves through vascular tissue?
34. What is the only tissue that produces new cells by mitosis?
35. What is the organelle in a plant cell that collects energy from sunlight?
36. What does plant use energy to absorb from the soil?
37. What moves from the soil into the plant without taking energy?
38. Bark and cork are what type plant tissue?
39. What type of vascular tissue use to transport nutrients and water?
40. What if the main function of the leaves?