Checks

Test on Flora

1. What are the large groups which the vegetal kingdom can be divided into
2. What is the difference between Angiospermae and Gymnospermae. Why is there such a difference?
3. What do plants live on?
4. Do the Angiospermae or the Gymnospermae prevail among the higher plants?
5. In what way have the plants living in desert areas adapted to a hostile environment?
6. What role do plants play in the food chain?
7. Make an example. Why are forests called ‘the lungs of the Earth’?
8. In what way does the destruction of forests affect climatic changes?
9. What are the main causes of deforestation?
10. What does the distribution of vegetal species depend on?
11. How has farming changed since the antiquity?
12. What does GMO mean? Why has man started to investigate this field?
13. Is there any relation between plants and medicine? Explain.
14. In what way does the presence of vegetation affect the territory and the landscape?
15. In what way can farming by-products be used? (compare with the section on ‘Energy – Energy from biomasses’).
16. Look at the vegetation along the way from home to school during the year.
17. What are bonsai?
18. What are the main differences between organic and traditional produce?
19. List some products of the earth by season.
20. List some fruits by season.