Vocab Words
Trees
Leaves
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Actual Test Questions
100
This type of leaf lacks a petiole
What is a sessile leaf?
100
This term refers to trees that lose their leaves each fall
What is deciduous?
100
This is the opening in a leaf
What is a stoma?
100
This is an example of a (monocot/dicot)
What is a monocot
100
Plants whose special leaves trap and digest insects
What are insectivorous plants?
100
What carbohydrate strengthens plant cell walls?
Cellulose
200
This is the creeping, above ground stem of a grass plant
What is a stolon?
200
This is the bushy head of a tree
What is the crown?
200
This protects and covers the leaf
What is the epidermis?
200
The leaf arrangement shown here
What is alternate?
200
Leaves, stems, and flowers are part of this plant system
What is the shoot system?
200
What type of leaf holds a vine upright by coiling around a support structure?
Tendril
300
The large central vein of a leaf
What is a midrib?
300
This group of trees produces winged fruits called samaras
What are maple trees?
300
The middle layer of the leaf, where most photosynthesis occurs
What is the mesophyll?
300
The type of venation shown here
What is pinnate?
300
The place where an organism lives
What is a habitat?
300
What type of vascular tissue carries sap upward?
Xylem
400
The process by which water vapor is lost from the leaves of a plant
What is transpiration?
400
This special layer helps trees lose their leaves each fall
What is the abscission layer?
400
A leaf haaving more than one blade on the leafstalk (petiole)
What is a compound leaf?
400
The darker brownish flowers in the center of this composite
What are disk flowers?
400
This term refers to nonwoody plants
What is herbaceous?
400
What two compounds are produced by the light reaction of photosynthesis?
ATP and NADPH
500
The scientific name for flowering seed plants
What is an angiosperm?
500
Cork and parenchyma are this type of tissue
What is structural tissue?
500
The stalk that attaches the leaf to the stem
What is the petiole?
500
Number 7 in the diagram
What are the chloroplasts?
500
These cells control the flow of air and water into and out of a leaf
What are guard cells?
500
Which plant family is known for its poisonous members?
Cashew family