Plant Function
Plant organs
Life Cycle of a plant
Animal Categories
Test Sample questions
100

Gives energy to a plant

What is the sun?

100

This organ of the plant is responsible for absorbing water and nutrients

What is the ROOT ?

100

The perfect ______________ is necessary in order for a plant to grow.

Condition...  weather... temperature... situation  are all acceptable answers

100

Animals are categorized into these two major groups, that are similar to vascular and non-vascular plants.

What are Vertebrates and Invertebrates?

100

Many animals depend on plants for 

a. Shelter

b. pollination

c. seed dispersal

d. sunlight

Answer is   A. Shelter

200

This is the natural compound present in green plants that gives it it's color

What is Chlorophyll ?

200

This is found in flowering plants.  Non flowering plants do not have this?

What are seeds?

200

the process in which, under perfect conditions, the seed coat breaks open and a root begins to emerge.

What is germination?

200
This animal has fur or hair, have milk- producing glands,and are warm blooded. 

What are mammals?

200

Decomposers are important in the food chain because they

Break down dead organisms and recycle nutrients into the soil

300

The tendency of a plant's stem to grow toward the sun

What is phototropism?

300

Plants such as ferns and mosses produce _______ instead of seeds?

What are spores?

300

when the plant is very small, but has begun to show leaves

What is a seedling?

300

I have scales, lay eggs on land and us my lungs to breathe.

What is a reptile?

300

The diagram below shows a simple food chain.

Which of the following animals might compete with the coyote in this food chain?

The answer   is   C   Owl

400

The process in which a plant creates its own food

What is photosynthesis?

400

This organ of the plant is similar to an animals reproductive system?

What is the flower?

400
The stage in a plants life, when the plant begins to grow flowers and/or fruit?

What is Mature plant or adult plant?

400

Name three of the most common types of invertebrates.  Do not name the specific animal, but the category

What are...   Arthropods,annelids, echinoderms, protozoa, mollusks

400

A group of students is building a model of an ecosystem. Which of the following organisms should the students select to act as a decomposer?

The answer is B  mushroom

500

The leaves of the plant release oxygen and absorb carbon dioxide.  This plant organ has a function similar to which human organ?

What are lungs?

500

These two tissues are part of the vascular system of a plant. It helps transport nutrients, water and food throughout the entire plant

What are Phylum and xylem

500

A plant reproduced this way, will be identical to the parent plant since there is no mixing of male and female gametes

What is asexual?

500

I am a single celled animal

Protozoa

500

Which animals are most likely to carry the seeds found in berries from the parent plant to another area?

a. bees

b. birds

c. flies

d. caterpillars

Answer is b. birds