Plant and Ecology Project -100 points
This project will help you master and apply some of the ideas presented in
the plant and ecology unit. Each person is responsible to turn in his/her
project. If there is any plagiarism, even on only one section, you will
receive no credit for the entire project. This is a great chance for you to
improve your grade, so do a good job. Each part has a separate due date
so I can get it graded in a timely manner. Once all sections have been
graded, you will put it all together in this order to construct a notebook.
Sources to help you will be your textbook and other books found in the
classroom and any source you have at home or from the internet however, if you copy word for word (or close to word for word), you will
receive a zero for the entire project. Answer all questions with complete
sentences or write the question.
Due Wednesday, April 30
Types of Plants: (4) - Up to one page for each
Distinguish between the following types of plants with both words
and diagrams (pictures from the internet are OK, but you must
tell me your source):
a) vascular and nonvascular
b) seed-producing and non-seed producing
c) gymnosperms and angiosperms
d) monocots and dicots
Main Organs of a Plant One page for:
a) flower: (10 pt) Using the diagram of a flower provided, find a complete
flower (with both male and female parts) and take it apart. Tape down
each part and label it. These parts must be included: petal, filament,
anther, pistil, stigma, ovary, style, receptacle, and sepals. On the
same page, provide description of the function of that structure. If
you do this with enough time, you can put it into a flower press in
class and it will be pressed and dried before you put your final project
together.
One page for:
b) seed (4 pt) - get a peanut or pea and tear it apart. Find the embryo
between the cotyledons. Draw and label: cotyledons and embryo.
1) what kind of seed is the peanut (monocot or dicot)?
2) What is the difference between monocot and dicot seeds?
Due Friday. May 2
One page for:
c) ROOTS (4 pt) - find and look at the roots of a dandelion and grass
(either in real life or in a book or on line. Answer the following:
1) What are the two main jobs of roots for plants?
2) What type of root systems do the dandelion and grass have?
3) What type of root system does a carrot have?
4) Why can dandelions survive the hot dry summer better than
grass?
One page for:
d) STEMS (4 pt) - Find the two types of stems and tape a small example of
each onto a piece of paper to be inserted into your project. Label
them with which type each is.
Answer these questions:
1) What two types of vascular tissue are found in stems?
What does each of these tissues do?
2) When you buy lumber at Home Depot, which of these tissues
are you buying?
One page for each type of leaf
e) Leaves (6 pt)Leaf Types: Find an example of each of the following leaf types:
simple, compound palmate, compound pinnate and compound doubly
pinnate.
Tape each leaf to a piece of paper and label which type the leaf is. On
each leaf, label the petiole, blade, and veins.
Due Monday, May 5
One page for:
Cross section of a leaf (8 pt)- Label and color the diagram of a leaf cross
section that is provided. Give the functions of each of the labeled
parts. Terms to use include: vein (contains xylem and phloem),
cuticle, palisade mesophyll, spongy mesophyll, guard cells,
stomates, epidermis and chloroplasts
Separate pages for each specimen:
Collect four different plant specimens (leaves and flowers should do) and
tape it to the space on the sheets provided. Fill in the information
about that plant in the spaces below the specimen. (8 pt)
Due Wednesday, May 7
One page:
Mysteries of Life questions concerning plants (6 pt) Remember - complete
sentences!
Answer these on a separate piece of paper, written neatly or typed.
1. What is the difference between deciduous and evergreen trees?
2. What happens within a leaf to make it change color in the fall?
3. What happens at the petiole to make leaves fall off the deciduous
tree in the fall?
4. Leaves are green. Discuss the light wavelengths and cell parts that
cause this.
5. Why is a PhiladelphiaPhillies cap red? (If you got the answer to
question 4, then you should be able to answer this).
6. Along the same lines as questions 4&5, which light wavelength
is the least used by green plants in photosynthesis?
One page for:
Photosynthesis and Respiration (7 pt)
Read the description of photosynthesis in your notes and answer
these questions (remember to use complete sentences or write each
question):
1) write the equation for photosynthesis
2) Where in a plant does photosynthesis occur?
3. Write the equations for photosynthesis and aerobic
respiration together and describe similarities and differences.
4) What is anaerobic respiration?
5. Write the equation for aerobic respiration.
6) List the three stages of respiration.
7) Compare the amount of energy (in the form of ATP) given
off by anaerobic respiration compared with that of aerobic
respiration.
Due Monday, May 12
Several pages for:
Ecology Puzzle (15 pt)
Create an ecology puzzle (crossword, word search, word scramble,
etc) using the following terms: biome, ecosystem, community,
population, climax community, succession, biotic, abiotic, pioneer
organism, cellulose, transpiration, alternation of generations,
geotropism, phototropism, thigmotropism, hydrotropism, vascular
plants, nonvascular plants, and photosynthesis. Regardless of which
type of puzzle you make, you must include definitions of each term.
In order to receive full credit, you need to include a blank puzzle with
clues and a puzzle with the answers filled in.
The following web sites will assist you in making a puzzle:
http://puzzlemaker.school.discovery.com/chooseapuzzle.html
http://kids.msfc.nasa.gov/Teachers/WordFindBuilder/PuzzleBuilder.html
http://www.varietygames.com
One page for:
Construct a food web (9 pt) using plants and animals from the Pine Barrens
of NJ - use the Field Guide to the Pine Barrens in class. Copy (tracing
is OK) the organism and place it on a food web with other organisms.
You must include (pay close attention to the direction of the arrows):
2 producers
3 first order consumers
2 second order consumers
2 third order consumers
1 decomposer/scavenger
Constructing your Project:
Cover Page (5 pt) Pictures, a title and your name to construct a nice
cover.
Table of Contents (5) - Create a table of contents using the heading
of each page and provide page numbers.
Citation page for Works Cited (5) - you must give credit for
information that is not yours - include your textbook, any other
book, and any internet sources you used.
The entire project will be put together so you have a nice remembrance of
this unit. There will be a plant test at the end of this unit, so pay attenion to
what you are doing. This information is also fair game for the final exam, so
keep your notebook to refer to when studying for the final.
Name ________________________________
Plant Specimen - Tape down a sample of a plant (leaf and/or flower, or if it is not a
flowering plant, use just leaves)
Common name of the plant ___________________________
Circle all that apply for this plant:
Vascular or Nonvascular
Bryophyte/Fern/Gymnosperm/Angiosperm
Monocot or Dicot
Stem = Woody or Herbaceous
Veins in leaves - parallel, pinnate, palmate
Deciduous or Evergreen
Leaf type - simple/compound pinnate/compound palmate/
compound doubly pinnate/ other
Annual/biennial/perennial
Reproduction? - spores/"naked seeds"/flowers