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All plants have one major thing in common...what is that thing?
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They are all autotrophs (they can make their own food)
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Where do endospores form?
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In harsh conditions (very cold or very hot weather)
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Viruses need _________ to multiply.
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energy from a living thing
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What is one characteristic of plantlike algae?
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They are autotrophic
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Why are red tides dangerous to humans?
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They create toxins and if humans were to be exposed to that (either by eating the organisms exposed to it or by swallowing the water) we can get very sick.
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Is fungus autotrophic or heterotrophic?
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heterotrophic
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What do the chemicals in hyphae do?
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they ooze from the hyphae and break down the food
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When fungus eats dead or decaying organisms... what are they helping the earth to do?
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they return the nutrience back to the soil
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What does yeast need to make food?
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sugar
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How are no-vascular plants and vascular plants different?
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they transport water and neutrience differently
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What are the three types of nonvascular plants?
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1.Mosses
2.Liverwarts 3.Hornwarts |
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What is the rhizoids main function?
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to keep the plant in the ground and obsorbe nutrience (it acts as roots in nonvascular plants)
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What factor did not play a role in creating tidaus coal deposites?
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100 year time span
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What is a frond?
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leaves on a fern
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Why do ferns need to live in a moist enviorment?
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So the sperm can swim to the egg.
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