Exploring Creation with

Botany
Notebook

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Chapter 1: Botany
Lesson 1: Pages 1 6 1. What is botany?

2. What day did God create plants?

3. What language do many scientific words come from?

4. Why do scientists use that language?

5. What word means the study of living things?

6. Are botanists biologists?

7. Are all biologists botanists?

8. Biologists divide living things into 5 kingdoms. What kingdom will you be studying this semester?

9. Kingdoms are further divided into smaller categories called?

10. The process of placing things into groups is called?

Page 2 11. What are all the classification groups in order? K___________________________________

P___________________________________

C___________________________________

O___________________________________

F____________________________________

G____________________________________

S_____________________________________

12. The job for scientists who organize and classify living things is called?

13. Plants names are based on which to classification groups?

14. What is binomial classification?

Page 3 Assignment Pick one of your favorite plants. Use the internet to find a picture of that plant and glue it to this page. Write its scientific name as well as its full classification.

Scientific Name: __________________________________________________________________

Kingdom___________________________________

Phylum___________________________________

Class___________________________________

Order___________________________________

Family____________________________________

Genus____________________________________

Species_____________________________________

Page 4 Lesson 2: Pages 8 13 1. What are vascular plants?

2. Are people vascular?

3. What tubes carry water and chemicals up the plant?

4. What tubes carry sugar and chemicals down the plant?

5. What is the large center vein in leaves called?

6. What are plants called that dont have tubes?

7. What is an example of a nonvascular plant?

8. How do nonvascular plants move water?

9. What are the two different kinds of plants that made seeds?

10. What characteristic do angiosperms share?

Page 5 11. What does angiosperm mean?

12. What does gymnosperm mean?

13. What is the name of the gymnosperm phyla that contains pine trees?

Page 6 Lesson 3: Pages 14 15 1. What phylum is the fern a part of?

2. What does ptero mean?

3. Are plants in the phylum pterophyla vascular or nonvascular?

4. Plants in the phylum pterophyta do not make flowers, seeds or cones. What do they make?

5. What are sporangia filled with?

6. What does a seed have that a spore does not?

7. What is the name of the phylum for mosses?

8. Do nonvascular plants make seeds or spores?

9. What are lichens?

10. Are lichens a kind of moss?

Page 7 Activity Use the internet to find an example of each of the four phylum studied in this chapter. Glue pictures to this page, and below the picture write the characteristics that make it an example of the phylum. Phylum Anthophyta Phylum Coniferophyta

Phylum Pterophyta

Phylum Bryophyta

Page 8 Project We are going to grow some herbs together for cooking. Materials List the materials we used for our herb garden.

Procedure List the steps we followed to grow our herbs.

Observations

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Chapter 2: Seeds
Lesson 1: Pages 20 - 24 1. What is the tern we use to describe a sleeping plant?

2. What are the only things a plant needs to become active?

3. Both seeds and people begin as what?

4. What is the shell of the seed called?

5. What is the seeds belly button called?

Page 10 Activity 1. Look carefully at your sunflower seed. Draw a color picture of it below and label the testa and the hilum.

2. Carefully pull open the bean seed. Compare it to the picture on Page 24 and locate the cotyledons, radical, epicotyl, plumule and hypocotyl.

Page 11 Lesson 2: Pages 25 30 1. When is a seed considered mature?

2. What are the biggest part of the embryo that provides food called?

3. What is the radicle?

4. What does the hypocotyls become on the plant?

5. What is held inside the epicotyls?

6. What does the plumule become?

7. Do all seeds have a plumule?

8. What is the process of the seed becoming a seedling called?

9. What kind of food is found in the endosperm that plants need to survive?

10. Plants are called producers. Why?

Activity Use the drawing on Page 27 and the instructions on page 29 to create a flip book of a seed germinating and growing into a seedling.

Page 12 Lesson 3: Pages 31 32 1. What 2 classes can angiosperms be classified into?

2. What does mono mean?

3. What does di mean?

4. What characteristic do scientists use to determine if a flower is a monocot or dicot?

5. How can you determine if a plant is a monocot by using its leaves?

6. How can you use the flower petals to decide if a flower is a dicot or monocot?

Activity Identify the plants on Page 32 as monocots or dicots. A. B. C. D.

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Scientific Experiment Germination

Materials

Procedure

Hypothesis

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Data
6 cm 5 cm 4 cm 3 cm 2 cm 1 cm 0 cm Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5 Day 6 Day 7 Day 8 Day 9 Day 10 Day 11 Day 12

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6 cm 5 cm 4 cm 3 cm 2 cm 1 cm 0 cm Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5 Day 6 Day 7 Day 8 Day 9 Day 10 Day 11 Day 12

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6 cm 5 cm 4 cm 3 cm 2 cm 1 cm 0 cm Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5 Day 6 Day 7 Day 8 Day 9 Day 10 Day 11 Day 12

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Results

Conclusion

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Chapter 3: Flowers
Lesson 1: Pages 35 - 37 1. Plants that make flowers are called?

2. If there were no angiosperms what would we most likely be eating?

3. What is it called when you take something apart to learn more about its parts?

4. What is anatomy?

Activity Follow the flower dissection instructions on pages 38 40. As you are working answer the following questions. 5. What is the purpose of the sepals?

6. What are all the sepals together called?

7. What are all the petals together called?

8. Where is the nectar kept?

9. What are the male parts of the flower called?

10. What two parts make up the stamen?

11. Which part of the stamen is covered with pollen?

Page 18 12. What is the female part of the flower called?

13. What is the top of the carpel called?

14. Why is the stigma sticky?

15. What is the style?

16. What is at the very bottom of the carpel?

17. What joins together to make a seed?

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Lesson 2: Pages 41 46 1. How many flower families have botanists listed?

2. What is the Latin name for the sunflower family?

3. What kind of flowers do plants in the asteraceae family produce?

4. Do composite flowers have typical stamens and carpels?

5. What makes a composite flower do unique?

6. What is special about carnivorous plants?

7. What nutrient do carnivorous plants get from animal protein?

8. What does a venus flytrap produce to attract prey?

9. What happens when a living thing touches two hairs in the venus fly trap?

10. Do carnivorous plants catch animals for food?

11. Where do bladderwort plants live?

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12. How do badderwort plants catch prey?

13. What does the pitcher plant look like?

14. Why cant bugs climb out of the pitcher plant?

15. Do pitcher plants prefer insects or larger animals?

16. What do sundews produce to attract and trap prey?

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Lesson 3: Label Flower Parts Use what you have learned and the illustration on page 41 to label the parts of the flower.

The male part of the flower:

The female part of the flower:

The petals collectively:

The sepals collectively: