_____ is a system of tube-like structures inside a plant through which water, minerals, and food move.
What is vascular tissues
100
True/False A moss is a type of VASCULAR plant.
What is false, nonvascular.
100
What part of a woody stem forms rings that indicate the tree’s age?
a. xylem
b. phloem
c. cambium
d. inner bark
What is a. xylem.
100
TRUE/FALSE: In plants, sexual reproduction occurs when a sperm cell and an egg cell unite to form a ZYGOTE.
What is true.
100
A(n) ____________________ is a group of similar cells that perform a specific function in an organism.
What is tissue.
200
In what plant cell structure is water stored?
a. chloroplast
b. cell wall
c. vacuole
d. cytoplasm
What is c. vacuole.
200
Monocats have one _______ while dicots have two.
What is a seed leaf?
200
What is a stoma?
What is the surface layers of the leaf with small openings, or pores
200
Flowering plants that complete a life cycle within one growing season are called PERENNIALS>
What is false, annuals.
200
Angiosperms that have only one seed leaf are called __________________.
What is monocots.
300
The leaf’s cuticle ____________.
a. stores water.
b. reduces evaporation.
c. transports water in the leaf.
d. absorbs water for the leaf.
What is cuticle
300
Nonvascular plants DO NOT have _____ for absorbing water from the ground.
What is roots?
300
What is transpiration?
What is the process by which water evaporates from a plant's leaves
300
Germination will not happen unless a seed
a. is dispersed far from the plant that produced it.
b. absorbs water.
c. uses its stored food.
d. grows stamens and a pistil.
What is b. absorbs water.
300
Dormancy helps plants survive freezing temperatures and lack of _________________________.
What is liquid water.
400
what do all plants need to survive successfully on land?
What is they need to obtain/retain water and minerals from their surroundings, support their bodies, reproduce, and transport materials
400
What do seedless vascular plants produce instead of pollen and seeds?
Spores.
400
_____ occurs when the embryo begins to grow again and pushes out of the seed.
What is germination
400
Why must ferns live in moist environments?
a. to transport spores to new locations
b. to transport water to all cells
c. so that egg and sperm cells can join
d. so that fiddleheads develop for food
What is c. so that egg and sperm cells can join
400
Plant cell walls contain a rigid material called ____________________.
What is cellulose.
500
What characteristics do all plants share?
What is they are autotrophic, are multicellular, and their cells are surrounded by cell walls
500
What are the four groups of gymnosperms?
Cycads, ginkgoes, conifers, and gnetophytes.
500
What are the structures of a flower?
What is a typical flower contains septals, petals, stamans, and pistils
500
A grapevine coiling around a fence post is an example of
a. positive gravitropism.
b. positive thigmotropism.
c. negative phototropism.
d. all of the above.
What is b. positive thigmotropism.
500
A plant loses water through the process of _______________ in which water evaporates through the plant's leaves.