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All Things Green Quiz Quiz

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In the 1700s Jan Ingenhousz showed that plants could restore to air a property necessary to animal life. What is the name of this restorative process, which Ingenhousz is credited with discovering?

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1.

What carnivorous plant has hinged leaves that snap shut to trap insects?

2.

What is the history of the evolution of a species or group called?

3.

Potatoes, tomatoes, and tobacco all belong to the plant order Solanales. Which of these plants belongs to this group?

4.

What useful New World material was referred to by 18th-century Europeans as “caoutchouc,” a French version of an Indian word for “weeping wood”?

5.

Who was the Swedish botanist whose system for naming and classifying organisms is still used today?

6.

In the 1700s Jan Ingenhousz showed that plants could restore to air a property necessary to animal life. What is the name of this restorative process, which Ingenhousz is credited with discovering?

7.

From what plant did Andreas Sigismund Marggraf extract sugar in 1747, leading to the development of an industry?

8.

What involves growing plants in nutrient-enriched water?

9.

What is a cedar?

10.

What plant, also called pat and allyott, is a chief source of a tough plant fibre?

11.

What do carnivorous plants obtain from animal bodies?

12.

What is a mangrove?

13.

Which dye and flavouring agent, obtained from Crocus sativus, has been used for colouring the robes of Buddhist priests and as perfume by the ancient Greeks and Romans?

14.

What tree do silkworms naturally feed on?

15.

The rainforests of Southeast Asia are home to some of the world’s largest and smelliest flowers. What is the name of one of these stinky blooming giants?

16.

What fruit belongs to the cashew family?

17.

What ecological term denotes the relationship between a plant and its pollinators?

18.

What fat-soluble substance present in green leafy vegetables was given its name because it is required for the coagulation of blood to take place?

19.

Which German botanist cofounded the cell theory with Theodor Schwann?

20.

Vanilla plants belong to the same family as which of these plants?

21.

What is an exceptionally lightweight wood from a South American tree of the same name?

22.

What do epiphytes depend on other plants for?

23.

Which beverage is brewed from the leaves of Camellia sinensis?

24.

Whose 1682 book correctly presented the pistil and stamen as, respectively, the female and male sex organs of flowers?

25.

What do we get linen from?

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1. What carnivorous plant has hinged leaves that snap shut to trap insects?

2. What is the history of the evolution of a species or group called?

3. Potatoes, tomatoes, and tobacco all belong to the plant order Solanales. Which of these plants belongs to this group?

4. What useful New World material was referred to by 18th-century Europeans as “caoutchouc,” a French version of an Indian word for “weeping wood”?

5. Who was the Swedish botanist whose system for naming and classifying organisms is still used today?

6. In the 1700s Jan Ingenhousz showed that plants could restore to air a property necessary to animal life. What is the name of this restorative process, which Ingenhousz is credited with discovering?

7. From what plant did Andreas Sigismund Marggraf extract sugar in 1747, leading to the development of an industry?

8. What involves growing plants in nutrient-enriched water?

9. What is a cedar?

10. What plant, also called pat and allyott, is a chief source of a tough plant fibre?

11. What do carnivorous plants obtain from animal bodies?

12. What is a mangrove?

13. Which dye and flavouring agent, obtained from Crocus sativus, has been used for colouring the robes of Buddhist priests and as perfume by the ancient Greeks and Romans?

14. What tree do silkworms naturally feed on?

15. The rainforests of Southeast Asia are home to some of the world’s largest and smelliest flowers. What is the name of one of these stinky blooming giants?

16. What fruit belongs to the cashew family?

17. What ecological term denotes the relationship between a plant and its pollinators?

18. What fat-soluble substance present in green leafy vegetables was given its name because it is required for the coagulation of blood to take place?

19. Which German botanist cofounded the cell theory with Theodor Schwann?

20. Vanilla plants belong to the same family as which of these plants?

21. What is an exceptionally lightweight wood from a South American tree of the same name?

22. What do epiphytes depend on other plants for?

23. Which beverage is brewed from the leaves of Camellia sinensis?

24. Whose 1682 book correctly presented the pistil and stamen as, respectively, the female and male sex organs of flowers?

25. What do we get linen from?

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1.

What carnivorous plant has hinged leaves that snap shut to trap insects?

2.

What is the history of the evolution of a species or group called?

3.

Potatoes, tomatoes, and tobacco all belong to the plant order Solanales. Which of these plants belongs to this group?

4.

What useful New World material was referred to by 18th-century Europeans as “caoutchouc,” a French version of an Indian word for “weeping wood”?

5.

Who was the Swedish botanist whose system for naming and classifying organisms is still used today?

6.

In the 1700s Jan Ingenhousz showed that plants could restore to air a property necessary to animal life. What is the name of this restorative process, which Ingenhousz is credited with discovering?

7.

From what plant did Andreas Sigismund Marggraf extract sugar in 1747, leading to the development of an industry?

8.

What involves growing plants in nutrient-enriched water?

9.

What is a cedar?

10.

What plant, also called pat and allyott, is a chief source of a tough plant fibre?

11.

What do carnivorous plants obtain from animal bodies?

12.

What is a mangrove?

13.

Which dye and flavouring agent, obtained from Crocus sativus, has been used for colouring the robes of Buddhist priests and as perfume by the ancient Greeks and Romans?

14.

What tree do silkworms naturally feed on?

15.

The rainforests of Southeast Asia are home to some of the world’s largest and smelliest flowers. What is the name of one of these stinky blooming giants?

16.

What fruit belongs to the cashew family?

17.

What ecological term denotes the relationship between a plant and its pollinators?

18.

What fat-soluble substance present in green leafy vegetables was given its name because it is required for the coagulation of blood to take place?

19.

Which German botanist cofounded the cell theory with Theodor Schwann?

20.

Vanilla plants belong to the same family as which of these plants?

21.

What is an exceptionally lightweight wood from a South American tree of the same name?

22.

What do epiphytes depend on other plants for?

23.

Which beverage is brewed from the leaves of Camellia sinensis?

24.

Whose 1682 book correctly presented the pistil and stamen as, respectively, the female and male sex organs of flowers?

25.

What do we get linen from?