Test 5

Attributes

100

A plant that has tissues capable of transporting water and other materials is called?

Vascular plant

200

This is in plant cell walls which are a tough fiber that gives plants their rigidity and strength.

Cellulose

300

Which of the four main groups of plants bear seeds out in the open like pine trees

Gymnosperms

400

All plants produce spores which are unicellular and ?

haploid

500

plant gametes fuse to form a zygote that develops into a ?

multicellular embryo

Structure

100

The type of vascular tissue that transports water and dissolved nutrients from the roots to the rest of the plant in one direction

Xylem

200

A taproot is a feature of what type of plant?

Hint: Monocot or dicot

Dicot

300

The attachment between the blade and the stem of a plant 

Petiole

400

This type of cell consist of undifferentiated cells (stem cells) that can become any type of tissue.

Meristematic tissue

500

The spongy ground tissue at the center of herbaceous stems

Pith

Hormones

100

This hormone is responsible for the gas that causes fruits to ripen

Ethylene

200

This promotes cell elongation

Auxins

300

The growth of a plant towards the light is what type of topism

Phototropism

400

Abscisic acid causes what in seeds by inhibiting hormones?

dormancy

500

Which type of tropism is related to the roots growing into the soil?

Gravitropism

Transportation

100

The nutrients and water that are being transported are a plant are seen asa. sticky substance called

Sap

200

The movement of water from the roots to the leaves

Transpiration

300

What gives the plants its rigidity and explains why a plant that lacks water looks wilted

Turgor pressure

400

The rise of water in the xylan by the properties of water like adhesion

Capillary action

500

As part of the cohesion-tension theory, water molecules in the leaves spongy mesophyll exit the leaf as water vapor through what?

the stomata

Misc

100

Is this a simple or compound leaf?

Simple

200

The broad part of a leaf is called 

Blade

300

The layer behind the cortex which is a thin layer that produces a plant's xylem and phloem. 

Vascular cambium

400

This type of group tissue cell is important for providing flexible support to a plant

Collenchyma cell

500

Producing a clone that is genetically identical to the parent plant

Propagation