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6th Grade Science
Week 2 Day 1
6-2.1 & 6-2.2
1. What are the characteristics that all living
things have?
must reproduce, use energy,
respond to stimuli and grow
2.
photosynthesis
Through what process do autotrophs or
plants provide for their own food for
energy?
3. What is any change in an organism’s
surroundings that will cause the organism
to react?
Teacher extension - Some examples of
environmental stimuli are:
4. What is the study of how scientists classify
organisms and what are the levels of
classification?
stimulus
Ex. changes in the amount of light
present, changes in temperature,
sound, amount of water, space,
amounts or types of food, or other
organisms present.
Taxonomy
Kingdom, phylum, class, order,
family, genus, and species
Examples for teachers:
Red Oak
Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Anthophyta
Class: Dicotyledones
Order: Fagales
Family: Fagacea
Genus: Quercus
Species: Pinus strobes
5. Most scientist support a five kingdom
system. What are the five kingdoms?
Plants, Animals, Fungi, Protists,
Moneran
6. What is the scientific name of an organism
made up of?
Its genus and its species.
Examples for teachers: Canis lupus is the
scientific name for the wolf, and Pinus
taeda is the scientific name for a loblolly
pine.
6th Grade Science
Week 2 Day 2
6-2.3
1. Plants are classified into two major groups
based on their internal structures. What are
these two groups?
A.
B.
C.
D.
C. vascular and non
vascular
cones and flowers
spores and seeds
vascular and non vascular
plants and organisms
2. What is an important difference between
vascular and non vascular plants?
A. Vascular plants have a well-developed transport
system and non vascular plants do not.
B. Non vascular plants have a well-developed
transport system and vascular plants do not.
C. Vascular plants produce flowers and non vascular
plans do not.
D. Non vascular plants reproduce and non vascular
plants do not.
3. How do non-vascular plants obtain, and circulate
nutrients?
A. They obtain nutrients through their roots.
B. They obtain nutrients directly from the
environment and distribute it from cell to cell
throughout the plant.
C. They utilize real roots, leaves, and stems.
D. Through their transport system
A. Vascular plants have a
well-developed
transport system and
non vascular plants do
not.
B. They obtain nutrients
directly from the
environment and
distribute it from cell to
cell throughout the
plant.
spore producing
4. Use the clues to identify this plant group as seed
producing, or spore producing.
Clues: non vascular, usually very small, almost all
flowerless; examples: ferns, mosses, hornwort,
liverwort
5. Use the clues to identify this group as flowering
plants, or cone bearing.
Clues: vascular, grow seeds in an ovary embedded in
the flower, flower becomes a fruit containing the seeds,
leaf types are classified as monocotyledon or
dicotyledon
flowering plants
6th Grade Science
Week 2 Day 3
6-2.4 & 6-2.5
1. What defense structures do
plants have?
A. thorns, leaves and fruit with poisons,
leaves that close when touched
A. thorns, leaves and fruit with
poisons, leaves that close
when touched
B. camouflage, thorns, poison
C. thorns, vascular organs,
roots
D. poisonous leaves,
camouflage, and stems
2. Flower, stamen, pistil and
seeds are plant structures of
a flowering plant’s
______________ system.
A.
B.
C.
D.
A. reproduction
growth
reproduction
defense
classification
Teacher Extension: (Smart boards)
http://www.softschools.com/science/plants/flower_anatomy.jsp
3. What is the importance of the xylem- transports water
xylem and phloem?
phloem- transport food to growing parts of the
plant
4. All flowering plants go
through similar life cycles
that include distinct stages.
What are those four stages?
germination, plant development, fertilization
and seed production
5. Where is pollen produced?
stamen
6th Grade Science
Week 2 Day 4
6-2.6 & 6-2.7
1. A process of reproduction that involves
only one parent plant or plant part and
produces offspring identical to the parent
plant. Many plants can grow new plants
from their plant parts.
A. sexually
B. asexually
C. germinate
D. fruitate
2. What is the process of reproduction that
requires a sperm cell (in pollen) and an egg
cell (in the ovule) to combine to produce a
new organism. All flowering plants undergo
this process.
A. sexual
B. asexual
C. germinate
D. fruitate
3. What are the plant processes that are
necessary for plant survival?
4. What is the process by which all plants
make their own food, a simple sugar?
5. Some of the water taken in by the plant is
used in the photosynthesis. However plants
lose most of its water through its leaves
through what process?
B. asexually
A. sexual
photosynthesis,
respiration,
transpiration
photosynthesis
transpiration
6th Grade Science
Week 2 Day 5
6-2.8 & 6-2.9
1. What do we call the behavior when plants respond to
changes in the environment by growing or moving their
stems and roots or leaves towards or away from a
stimulus?
tropism
2. What do we call the period of time when the activity of a
plant or seed stops due to changes in temperature or the
amount of water?
dormancy
3. What is the kingdom called that does not make its own
food?
fungi
4. What are three ways that fungi are helpful?
decomposers
medicine
food
5. Corn smut, grain mold and wheat rust are fungi that affect
crop growth. The fungi feed off the plants, which causes
the plants to receive fewer nutrients. What most likely will
happen to the crop productions?
There will be
decreased
production
resulting in huge
crop loses.