- Due on paper or via email
- Complete weekly entry in field journal
Choose two of the following questions:
- Plant forms: What distinguishes a tree from a shrub, and an herbaceous plant from trees and shrubs? What is a liana?
- What is an annual plant? A perennial plant?
- Flowers:
- Which are the male and female parts of the flower?
- What are tepals?
- Where do you find nectaries?
- What are the fruits of plants formed from?
- How long have flowering plants been around?
- Pollination:
- Why do plants use animal pollinators?
- What is the general exchange between plants and their pollinating animals?
- What other ways do plants transfer pollen from one plant to another?
- What are four ways that plants disperse their seeds to new locations?
- What are two key adaptations some California plants have to fires?
- What makes invasive species problematic to California landscapes? What are some examples of problem species?
Write your answers in your lecture notebook or on a flash card, and bring them to the next class.