Beruflich Dokumente
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By Ginny (P7)
03/05/2011
Life cycle of a flower
Seed
A seed is a packet holding a young plant and food for the plant to use as it sprouts.
We know peas best in their seed stage.
Plant
Once it has sprouted, a plant can make its own food from sunlight.
People and animals cannot do this. We know oak trees best in their plant stage.
Flower
Flowers help the plant reproduce. When we think of a flower, we usually picture its petals.
But other parts of the flower can grow into a fruit after the petals fall off.
We know roses best in their flower stage.
Fruit
A fruit is a container for new seeds. Some containers are soft and good to eat.
Animals eat hem and drop the seeds on the ground. Other containers are hard.
They protect the seeds through hot and cold weather until they're ready to grow.
We know tomatoes best in their fruit stage.
Source: http://www.crickweb.co.uk/ks2science.html#lcycles5b
Germination
Warmth
Sunlight
Nutrition
Water
Life cycle of a tree
Life cycle of a mushroom
Flower
Leaf
Seed pod
Seedling
Seed
Cotyledon
Stem
Roots
Image source: http://www.teamcarterlces.com/images/plantlifecycle.gif
The life cycle of a fern
Image source: http://www.charlesbridge.com/client/client_images/spreads/plant_secrets_spread.jpg
Parts of a flower
Pollination
Source: http://www.thekidsgarden.co.uk/TeachKidsAboutPollination.html
Pollination cont/2
Birds are also responsible for pollination, especially
hummingbirds.
For instance, bees are often attracted to bright blue and violet
colours.
Source: http://www.bio.miami.edu/~cmallery/150/mendel/sf10x1a.jpg
Animal pollination
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root#Types_of_roots
http://kentsimmons.uwinnipeg.ca/2153/rootsystems.jpg
Types of Roots
Adventitious roots
grow from the stem, branches, leaves, or old woody roots.
They commonly occur in clover, ivy , strawberry and willow.
In some plants adventitious roots can form the largest part of the root system.
Aerating roots
rise above the ground, especially above water such as in some mangrove genera.
In some plants like Avicenna the erect roots
have a large number of breathing pores for exchange of gases.
Aerial roots
rise entirely above the ground, such as in ivy or in epiphytic orchids.
They function as prop roots, as in maize or anchor roots or as the trunk in strangler fig.
Contractile roots
pull bulbs or corms of monocots, such as hyacinth and lily.
Also some taproots, such as dandelion, deeper in the soil through
expanding radically and contracting longitudinally.
They have a wrinkled surface.
Coarse roots
have undergone secondary thickening and have a woody structure.
These roots have some ability to absorb water and nutrients
But their main function is transport and to provide a structure
to connect the smaller diameter and fine roots to the rest of the plant.
Types of Roots cont/2
Fine roots
are usually <2 mm diameter that have the function of water & nutrient uptake.
They are often heavily branched & support mycorrhizas.
These roots may be short lived,
but are replaced by the plant in an ongoing process of root 'turnover'.
Haustorial roots
Are roots of parasitic plants that can absorb water
and nutrients from another plant, such as in mistletoe and dodder.
Propagative roots
roots that form adventitious buds that develop into aboveground shoots,
termed suckers, which form new plants, as in Canada thistle, cherry and many others.
Proteoid roots
are dense clusters of rootlets of limited growth that develop under low phosphate
or low iron conditions in Proteaceae and some plants from the following…
Families Betulaceae, Casuarinaceae, Elaeagnaceae, Moraceae, Fabaceae
and Myricaceae.
Stilt roots
these are adventitious support roots, common among mangroves.
They grow down from lateral branches, branching in the soil.
Types of Roots cont/3
Storage roots
these roots are modified for storage of food or water,
such as carrots and beets. They include some taproots and tuberous
roots.
Structural roots
large roots that have undergone considerable secondary thickening
and provide mechanical support to woody plants and trees.
Surface roots
These proliferate close below the soil surface, exploiting water & easily
available nutrients. Where conditions are close to optimum in the
surface layers of soil, the growth of surface roots is encouraged and
they commonly become the dominant roots.
Tuberous roots
A portion of a root swells for food or water storage, e.g. sweet potato. A
type of storage root distinct from taproot...
Leaf shapes
Most of the time the leaves will be fairly variable but will roughly correspond
to a basic shape.
Source: http://theseedsite.co.uk/leafshapes.html
Leaf shapes cont/2
Leaf shapes cont/3
Ovoid: egg-shaped
Acicular: needle-shaped
Cordiform: heart-shaped
Oval: elliptical.
Leaf shapes cont/6
Orbicular: circular.
Linear: long and narrow
Subulate: ending in a point
Falcate: curved like a sickle
Cochleate: shaped like a shell
Sagittate: shaped like an arrowhead
Lacerate & auriculate: seems to have been torn and is equipped with auricles
Panduriform: violin-shaped
Lobate: divided into lobes
Cuneate: wedge-shaped
Hastate: halberd-shaped
Flabellate: fan-shaped.
Plant Groups
1. Mosses
2. Ferns
3. Conifers
4. Flowering Plants
Mosses
source:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6a/Mosses_on_a_tombstone.jpg
Mosses
Mosses are an amazingly resilient and versatile group of plants.
They can be found in just about every habitat you can think of
deserts, streams, the Arctic, Antarctic etc.
You can dry them out completely, subject them to extreme heats
and if you apply water, they will spring back into vibrant life
again.
In places like the high Arctic, they are one of the few plant forms
that can survive the devastating coldness.
They have no true roots and the leaves are only a few cells thick.
Ferns
Ferns first appear in the fossil record 360 million years ago
in the Carboniferous.
Many of the current families and species did not appear until
roughly 145 million years ago, after flowering plants came to
dominate many environments.
Trees
VARIETY (Ranunculus flammula subsp. flammula) var. tenuifolius Narrow-leaved Lesser Spearwort
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