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21 Cards in this Set
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Why do scientists classify things?
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Scientists classify things to study them more easily.
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What is a trait?
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A trait describes or tells about a thing.
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What are the two main groups of living things?
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Animal Kingdom & Plant Kingdom
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How are plants and animals different?
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Animals must eat food, and they can move from place to place.
Plants make their own food and cannot move from place to place. |
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Seed
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A seed is a part of a plant from which a new plant can grow.
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How do scientists classify plants?
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Scientists classify plants into two groups.
seed plants & non-seed plants |
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Seed Plant
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A plant that can form a new plant from seeds.
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What are two groups of seed plants?
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Plants that form seeds in flowers and plants that form seeds in cones.
(Flowers & Cones) |
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Fruit
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A fruit is the part of a flower that forms around a seed.
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dicot
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Any plant whose seeds have two sections.
All dicots have leaves with netted veins. |
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How are flowering plants alike?
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Flowering plants all form seeds in flowers.
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monocot
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Any plant whose seeds are in one piece.
All monocots have leaves with parallel veins. |
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Conifers
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A plant that forms seeds in cones.
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What kind of seed plant has no flowers?
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Plants with needlelike leaves.
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What is a nonseed plant?
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A plant that does not make seeds.
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What is the difference between seed plants and nonseed plants?
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Seed plants form new plants from seeds. Nonseed plants do not.
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What are the three main groups of nonseed plants?
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1. Algae
2. Mosses & Liverworts 3. Ferns |
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How do mosses, liverworts, & ferns form new plants?
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They form new plants from spores?
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What are fungi?
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A group of living things that form spores and do not make their own food.
(bread mold, mushrooms, & yeast) |
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Whar are Protists?
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Protists are very small living things.
(ameba & diatom) |
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Algae can be classified into what three colors?
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1. Green
2. Red 3. Brown |
