Introduction to Plants Vocab 4.4

naked, bare

• Gymno

• Homo

• Lacto

• Sacro

make their own food by using energy from their surroundings

• Consumers

• Decomposers

• Producers

• Herbivores

vascular plants that produce flowers, and fruits which surround and protect seeds.

• Gymnosperm

• Angiosperm

• Moss

• Fern

a plant embryo enclosed in a protective coating.

• Seed

• Spore

• Root

• Leaf

a system of tube-like tissues that transports water, nutrients, and other materials from one part of an organism to another part (these are not found in nonvascular plants because of this nonvascular plants are fairly small)

• Vascular System

• Nervous System

• Digestive System

• Respiratory System

vessel, container

• Angio

• Vaso

• Cysto

• Soma

a tiny structure in which sperm forms.

• Pollen

• Ovule

• Spermatozoon

• Anther

one of the two stages where plants produce gametes, female gametophytes produce eggs and male gametophytes produce sperm and reproduce through sexual reproduction. The fertilized embryo (egg) can grow into a sporophyte.

• Sporophyte stage

• Gametophyte stage

• Zygote stage

• Seed stage

the process by which plants and other organisms convert solar energy to chemical energy

• Photosynthesis

• Respiration

• Transpiration

• Fermentation

seed

• Sperm

• Egg

• Pollen

• Spores