Lab Exercise 9

Botany Field Trip

 

1. Work in groups of 3 to 4 students.
2. Try & find as many of the following items as possible with little to no impact on the habitat. Destruction of the habitat will result in a loss of many points!
3. Each item found must be verified by the instructor
4. Each item found can be used to fill only 1 blank!
5. This exercise will count as 1 lab quiz.

 

ITEM                          ITEM DESCRIPTION                     NOTES                      VERIFY

Fern                             __________________________        ______________        ______

Moss                           __________________________        ______________        ______

Lichen                         __________________________        ______________        ______

Epiphyte                      __________________________        ______________        ______

Xerophytes                  __________________________        ______________        ______

Mushroom (Fungus)   __________________________        ______________        ______

Bracket/Shelf Fungi    __________________________        ______________        ______

Algae                           __________________________        ______________        ______

Monocot Plant             __________________________        ______________        ______

Dicot Plant                  __________________________        ______________        ______

Angiosperm                 __________________________        ______________        ______

Gymnosperm              __________________________        ______________        ______

Bark                            __________________________        ______________        ______

Male Pine Cone           __________________________        ______________        ______

Female Pine Cone       __________________________        ______________        ______

 

Fruits

Dry Fruit                     __________________________        ______________        ______

Fleshy Fruit                 __________________________        ______________        ______

Simple                         __________________________        ______________        ______

Aggregate                    __________________________        ______________        ______

Multiple                       _________________________          ______________        ______

 

Leaves

Monocot                      __________________________        ______________        ______

Dicot                           __________________________        ______________        ______

Needle                         __________________________        ______________        ______

Palmately compound   __________________________        ______________        ______

Pinnately compound    __________________________        ______________        ______

Simple                         __________________________        ______________        ______

 

Leaf venation

Midrib                         __________________________        ______________        ______

Parallel                        __________________________        ______________        ______

Pinnate                        __________________________        ______________        ______

Palmate                        __________________________        ______________        ______

 

Leaf margins

Entire                           __________________________        ______________        ______

Serrate                         __________________________        ______________        ______

Pinnately lobed            __________________________        ______________        ______

Undulate                      __________________________        ______________        ______

 

Flowers

Complete                     __________________________        ______________        ______

Incomplete                   __________________________        ______________        ______

Perfect                         __________________________        ______________        ______

Imperfect                     __________________________        ______________        ______

Dioecious                    __________________________        ______________        ______

Monoecious                __________________________        ______________        ______

Inflorescence (grass)   __________________________        ______________        ______

Spikelet (grass)           __________________________        ______________        ______

 

Roots

Taproot                        __________________________        ______________        ______

Fibrous                        __________________________        ______________        ______

Prop root                     __________________________        ______________        ______

Aerial roots                  __________________________        ______________        ______

 

Stem Arrangement

Whorled                      __________________________        ______________        ______

Opposite                      __________________________        ______________        ______

Alternate                      __________________________        ______________        ______

 

Seeds

Monocot                      __________________________        ______________        ______

Dicot                           __________________________        ______________        ______

Gymnosperm              __________________________        ______________        ______

Hilum                          __________________________        ______________        ______

 

Plant structures

Node                           __________________________        ______________        ______

Internode                     __________________________        ______________        ______

Lenticel                        __________________________        ______________        ______

Leaf scar                      __________________________        ______________        ______

Fruit scar                     __________________________        ______________        ______

Stomata                       __________________________        ______________        ______

Petiole                         __________________________        ______________        ______

Axillary bud                __________________________        ______________        ______

Terminal bud               __________________________        ______________        ______

Terminal bud scar        __________________________        ______________        ______

Vascular bundles         __________________________        ______________        ______

 

Shoot systems

Vegetative: Stems        __________________________        ______________        ______
Vegetative: Leaves       __________________________        ______________        ______

Floral                           __________________________        ______________        ______

 

Pollen                          __________________________        ______________        ______

 

Animal Seed Dispersal__________________________        ______________        ______

Wind Seed Dispersal  __________________________        ______________        ______

 

Specialized Stems

Tendril                         __________________________        ______________        ______

Woody Stem               __________________________        ______________        ______

Rhizome                      __________________________        ______________        ______

Tuber                           __________________________        ______________        ______

Bulb                            __________________________        ______________        ______

Corm                           __________________________        ______________        ______

 

Seedling Parts

1^st true leaves               __________________________        ______________        ______

Cotyledon                    __________________________        ______________        ______

Hypocotyl                   __________________________        ______________        ______

Epicotyl                       __________________________        ______________        ______

 

Asexual Reproduction example __________________         ______________        ______

 

Guttation                     __________________________        ______________        ______

Soils

Loams                         __________________________        ______________        ______
Humus                        __________________________        ______________        ______

Litter                            __________________________        ______________        ______

Sand                            __________________________        ______________        ______

Silt                               __________________________        ______________        ______

Clay                             __________________________        ______________        ______

 

Soil Erosion example  __________________________        ______________        ______

 

Examples ofä

Phototropism               __________________________        ______________        ______

Geotropism                 __________________________        ______________        ______

Thigmotropism            __________________________        ______________        ______

 

Bring back leaves & identify trees using keys

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Bring back water sample & identify protist Phyla

                                    __________________________        ______________        ______

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Miscellaneous

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