AP Biology Scavenger Hunt

Monocot Plant with Flower and Stem

Monocot Plant with Flower and Stem

A plant that has one embryonic seed leaf (cotyledon)

Example: lilies

Gymnosperm

A vascular plant that bears "naked" seeds, or seeds not enclosed in protective chambers

Gymnosperm

Example: pinecone

Fruit- Fleshy with seed

Fruits that have a flesh area between the seeds and the skin

Fruit- Fleshy with seed

Example: bananas

Frond

A large leaf with many divisions

Frond

Example: Palm leaf or Fern leaf

Exoskeleton

A hard encasement on the surface of an animal

Exoskeleton

Example: a lobster's shell

Insect

A small arthropod animal with several pairs of legs

Insect

Example: flies

Radial Symmetry

Symmetry in which the body is shaped like a pie or barrel, and can be divided into mirror-imaged halves by any plane through its central axis

Radial Symmetry

Example: an orange

Autotroph

Example: Any plant

Autotroph

An organism that uses energy from the sun or from oxidation of inorganic substances to make organic molecules for inorganic ones; do not eat other organisms or their substances

Spore

A haploid cell produced in a sporophyte by meiosis; appears as a small black dot underneath a plant's leaf

Spore

Example: bumps on the bottom of the leaves of ferns...which I couldn't find anywhere! Not at my house, not at Silvi's house, not at the store, not in the park!

Cuticle Layer of Plant

The waxy covering on the surface of stems and leaves that prevents dessication in terrestrial plants

Cuticle layer of Plant

Example: shiny surface of a leaf

Stem- Woody

A perennial stem above ground and covered by a layer of bark

Stem- Woody

Example: tree trunk

Thorn of a Plant

A sharp spike protruding from the stem of a plant

Thorn of a Plant

Example: rose thorn

Adaptation of an Animal

An inherited characteristic of an organism that enhances its survival reproduction in a specific environment

Adaptation of an Animal

Example:

Here's my buddy Fernando and I...Fernando uses echolocation to "see" in the water through echoes

Conifer Leaf

A leaf coming form a cone-bearing plant (gymnosperms)

Conifer Leaf

Example: leaf from a pine tree

Deciduous Leaf

Broad, flat leaves that shed off of deciduous trees during the autumn season

Deciduous Leaf

Example: maple leaf

Dicot Plant with Flower and Leaf

A plant that has two embryonic seed leaves

Dicot Plant with Flower and Leaf

Example: daisies

Echinoderm

A slow-moving/sessile marine deuterosome with a water vascular system

Echinoderm

Example: sea stars

Flower Ovary

The portion of a carpel in which the egg-containing ovules develop

Flower Ovary

Example: center of a flower at the base of the petals

Phloem

Vascular plant tissue consisting of living cells arranged into elongated tubes that transport sugar and nutrients throughout the plant

Phloem

Example: any type of leaf

Stem- Herbaceous

A non-woody, soft stem of a plant; has a thin epidermis

Stem- Herbaceous

Example: grass