Battle of the Philippine Sea and Midway Quiz

World War II: Pacific Theater

• The Japanese lost their 4 best aircraft carriers in the Battle of Midway.
• The Battle of the Philippine Sea is also known as the 'Marianas Turkey Shoot'.
• American planes bombarded Japanese installations from the air in the Marianas Islands.
• The Battle of Iwo Jima resulted in heavy casualties for both the Americans and the Japanese.

Pacific War Turning Points

• The Island of Iwo Jima was significant to the Allies because it provided a strategic airbase for bombing Japan.
• The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki led to Emperor Hirohito finally admitting defeat.
• The Battle of Manila was unique in the entire Pacific War due to the high level of urban warfare and civilian casualties.

Philippine Liberation

• The Japanese fleet's weak side was its dependence on oil from the Dutch East Indies, which led to the decision to launch an attack in Leyte.
• The event that marked the total liberation of the Philippines was announced by General MacArthur.

Botany

• Plant propagation involves taking a part of one parent plant and causing it to regenerate itself into a new plant, a process known as vegetative propagation.
• The main difference between monocots (monocotyledons) and dicots (dicotyledons) is the number of cotyledons in their seeds, one and two respectively.
• Angiosperms are a group of plants that produce seeds enclosed within a carpel.
• Sexual reproduction in plants involves the union of pollen and egg from two parents, resulting in seeds.
• Monocots are characterized by leaves with parallel veins.
• Gymnosperms are distinguished from angiosperms by their naked seeds, whereas angiosperms have seeds enclosed in a carpel.
• The result of sexual propagation is the production of seeds.
• The number of cotyledons in a seed determines whether a plant is monocotyledon or dicotyledon.
• Asexual plant propagation involves the creation of a new plant from a vegetative part of the parent plant, such as a stem cutting or leaf.