Leaves
Vascular Tissue
Flowers and seeds
Growth
Plant Trivia
(not on test)
100

Outtermost waxy layer in a leaf

Cuticle

100

Which plants have scattered vascular bundles in their stem?

monocots

100

The male parts of the flower is called:

The Stamen

100

If a plant grows away from a stimulus, what type of growth is this?

negative tropism

100

This is Ontario's official flower

Trilliums

200

Keeps the stoma open.

Guard cells

200

Which tissue transports glucose to the roots of plants?

Phloem

200

4 or 5 petals on a flower is an indicator that the flower is a:

Dicot

200

These hormones are associated with cell elongation

auxins

200

This fast-growing plant is the main staple of Giant Pandas

Bamboo

300

Transpiration of water is regulated by which structures?

Stomata

300

Xylem and Phloem become a part of this in the leaf

A vein

300

Which seed type establishes two different systems from germination?

Monocots

300

These hormones are assiciated with fruit rippening

giberellins or ethylene

300

“Leaves of three, let them be” is a helpful rule of thumb for identifying which poisonous plant?

Poison Ivy

400

Part of the leaf that preforms photosynthesis

Palisade mesophyll

400

Woody plants are predominately made up of this type of vascular tissue, which wicks water through dead cells

Xylem

400
How can plants self-pollinate?

They have both stamen and carpel flowers capable of self-pollination

400

A plants stem will exibit which types of phototropism and gravitropism?

positive phototropism, negative gravitropism

400

This plant is the worlds largest flower, and smells of rotting flesh to attract flies as pollinators

Rufflesia (the Corpse Flower)

500

In very hot dry climates, plants can avoid water loss, by closing stoma during the day, and storing CO2 in this tissue.

Spongy mesophyll (air spaces)

500

Ring like structure is present in roots, but not in stems, to surround the vascular tissue?

endodermis, or vascular cylinder

500

After fertilization and seed development, many flowering plants will enclose their seeds in this sweet structure

Fruit

500

The movements of a mimosa plant (fainting plant) in response to touch.

nastic movement

500

The plant that is essential to primary succession 

Non-vascular plants like moss + lichen