Plants in God’s Creation
From a Christian worldview, plants are part of whose creation?
God’s creation
What feature helps many plants keep from drying out?
Cuticle
What plant feature allows water, minerals, and sugars to move throughout a plant?
Vascular tissue
Which plant group has vascular tissue but does not produce seeds?
Seedless vascular plants
Which seed plants produce seeds inside fruit?
Angiosperms
What structure anchors a plant in the soil and absorbs water and minerals?
Roots
Question:
Explain how God designed plants with structures that help them survive and serve a purpose in creation. Include at least three plant structures and explain what each one does.
Strong Answer Should Include:
Students should name at least three plant structures and accurately explain their jobs.
God designed plants with structures that help them survive and serve a purpose in His creation. Roots anchor the plant and absorb water and minerals. Stems support the plant and move water, minerals, and sugars. Leaves make food through photosynthesis and use stomata to allow gases to move in and out. Seeds protect the young plant embryo and provide stored food. These structures help plants live, grow, reproduce, and support life on Earth.
Name two ways plants are useful to people and animals.
Food, shelter, clothing, fuel, or oxygen
A plant cell wall is mostly made of what material?
Cellulose
Plants with vascular tissue are able to move materials through what?
Tubes inside the plant
Ferns reproduce by what?
Spores
Which seed plants often produce uncovered seeds on cones?
Gymnosperms
Which root system has one thick main root that grows down deep?
Taproot system
Plants are not unimportant because they serve what?
Many purposes in creation
Why are cell walls important for plants?
They give plant cells support, shape, and strength.
Why are nonvascular plants usually small?
They do not have vascular tissue to move materials far.
What is the curled young frond of a fern called?
Fiddlehead
Apples, peaches, beans, and roses are examples of what plant group?
Angiosperms
Which root system has many roots of about the same size branching in many directions?
Fibrous root system
Which answer best summarizes the Christian worldview statement about plants?
Plants are part of God’s creation and serve many purposes.
What pressure is made when water inside a plant cell pushes outward against the cell wall?
Turgor pressure
Mosses, liverworts, and hornworts are examples of what plant group?
Bryophytes
Unlike ferns, these plants reproduce using seeds rather than spores.
What is a seed plant?
Pine trees, spruces, firs, and redwoods are examples of what plant group?
Gymnosperms
What are the points along a stem where leaves, branches, or flowers grow called?
Nodes
Give three ways plants support life on Earth.
food, oxygen, shelter, clothing, fuel, beauty, or materials.
What long, narrow plant cell with thick walls gives extra support and can be used to make rope, cloth, or linen?
fiber
Why do bryophytes usually live in moist or shady places?
They need water to survive and reproduce.
What is inside a seed?
A young plant embryo and stored food
What is the key difference between angiosperms and gymnosperms?
Angiosperms have seeds in fruit; gymnosperms have seeds not enclosed in fruit.
What are the tiny openings in leaves that allow gases to move in and out called?
Stomata