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Chapter 17: Plants

Plants

1
The paper you use to write a letter most likely came from which type of plant?
A)ferns
B)peat
C)horsetails
D)conifers
2
The __________ covers and protects plant leaves.
A)resin
B)epidermis
C)rhizoid
D)cellulose
3
Plants need chlorophyll to carry out __________.
A)respiration
B)transpiration
C)reproduction
D)photosynthesis
4
Binomial nomenclature is a system for __________.
A)classification
B)reproduction
C)digestion
D)photosynthesis
5
The organ of a plant that traps light and carries out photosynthesis is __________.
A)the rhizoids
B)the leaves
C)the nucleus
D)the cuticle
6
Tulips have __________ stems.
A)stomata
B)woody
C)herbaceous
D)cambium
7
A plant that completes its life cycle within 12 months is called _________.
A)a biennial
B)an annual
C)an angiosperm
D)a spore
8
__________ are nonvascular plants that can be found growing on tree trunks.
A)Mosses
B)Gymnosperms
C)Angiosperms
D)Conifers
9
Maple trees have __________ stems.
A)woody
B)waxy
C)herbaceous
D)carotenoid
10
After decaying for millions of years, seedless plant material compacted and compressed to turn into __________.
A)calcium
B)coal
C)gold
D)iron
11
Which of these is a seedless vascular plant?
A)a horsetail
B)a moss
C)a liverwort
D)a pine
12
Which one of these is a club moss?
A)a cactus
B)an African daisy
C)a ground pine
D)a hornwort
13
Ferns reproduce by the use of __________.
A)cones
B)roots
C)spores
D)seeds
14
Seeds develop on the __________ of conifers.
A)phloem tissue
B)male cone
C)cambium tissue
D)female cone
15
What does the suffix -wort mean?
A)root
B)herb
C)seed
D)leaf
16
Which of these is NOT a gymnosperm?
A)a hornwort
B)a ginkgo
C)a conifer
D)a cycad
17
Of all the known plant species, more than half are Anthophyta, which are __________.
A)gymnosperms
B)angiosperms
C)mosses
D)ferns
18
__________ tissue help water and dissolved substances pass throughout a plant from its roots.
A)Xylem
B)Carotenoid
C)Phloem
D)Cuticle
19
After a fire destroys all plant life in a forest, trees begin to grow again. Those trees are considered __________.
A)primary succession
B)green algae
C)pioneer species
D)binomial nomenclature
20
A plant that matures after more than two years is called __________.
A)a perennial
B)a fossil
C)a biennial
D)a moss
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