Botany II Homework
1. A Flowery Field Trip
Identify a flower in your yard, in your neighborhood, or at your local park or nursery. See if you can name all of the parts of the flower: Sepal, pistil, petals, and stamen. If you're an artist, see if you can draw all of the parts of your chosen flower in a notebook and then label them. Next, identify the type of inflorescence your flower was borne on (capitulum, raceme, catkin, panicle, single flower, spadix, spike, or umbel).
2. Name That Inflorescence!
Using the list below, match the following pictures with their type of inflorescence:
Identify a flower in your yard, in your neighborhood, or at your local park or nursery. See if you can name all of the parts of the flower: Sepal, pistil, petals, and stamen. If you're an artist, see if you can draw all of the parts of your chosen flower in a notebook and then label them. Next, identify the type of inflorescence your flower was borne on (capitulum, raceme, catkin, panicle, single flower, spadix, spike, or umbel).
2. Name That Inflorescence!
Using the list below, match the following pictures with their type of inflorescence:
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Capitulum
Raceme Catkin Panicle |
Spadix
Spike Umbel Single Flower |
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2
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3
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4
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5
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6
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7
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8
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3. Fruit Classification Activity
Look at the fruits that you've purchased at the supermarket (or go on a trip to the supermarket and walk around the produce section) and challenge yourself to identify each one based on its seed arrangement and fruit classification (simple, aggregate, or multiple).
4. Respiration Activity
Try this experiment to see respiration in action! Grab a sandwich Ziploc bag and enclose a leaf from a live, growing plant in it (the leaf should still be attached to the plant). Visit the bag a few times over the span of a week, and see how the respiration from the plant is trapped in the plastic bag. The condensation that you can see in the bag is evidence of respiration.
Look at the fruits that you've purchased at the supermarket (or go on a trip to the supermarket and walk around the produce section) and challenge yourself to identify each one based on its seed arrangement and fruit classification (simple, aggregate, or multiple).
4. Respiration Activity
Try this experiment to see respiration in action! Grab a sandwich Ziploc bag and enclose a leaf from a live, growing plant in it (the leaf should still be attached to the plant). Visit the bag a few times over the span of a week, and see how the respiration from the plant is trapped in the plastic bag. The condensation that you can see in the bag is evidence of respiration.
Name That Inflorescence
- Catkin
- Umbel
- Capitulum
- a
- Raceme
- a
- Panicle
- Single Flower
