Life Science: From Bacteria to Plants, Book B

Chapter 3: Plants

Plants

1.
The paper you use to write a letter most likely came from which type of plant?
A)ferns
B)horsetails
C)conifers
D)peat
2.
A plant that matures after more than two years is called __________.
A)a biennial
B)a perennial
C)a moss
D)a fossil
3.
Ferns reproduce by the use of __________.
A)cones
B)seeds
C)roots
D)spores
4.
To slow down the loss of water, a plant's body is covered with __________.
A)cuticle
B)skin
C)carotenoids
D)mucus
5.
After decaying for millions of years, seedless plant material compacted and compressed to turn into __________.
A)calcium
B)coal
C)iron
D)gold
6.
What kinds of plants have structures that move water and other substances through them?
A)nonvascular
B)vascular
C)protist
D)bacterial
7.
Binomial nomenclature is a system for __________.
A)photosynthesis
B)classification
C)reproduction
D)digestion
8.
The __________ covers and protects plant leaves.
A)resin
B)cellulose
C)epidermis
D)rhizoid
9.
__________ tissue help water and dissolved substances pass throughout a plant from its roots.
A)Cuticle
B)Carotenoid
C)Xylem
D)Phloem
10.
Of all the known plant species, more than half are Anthophyta, which are __________.
A)angiosperms
B)gymnosperms
C)mosses
D)ferns
11.
__________ anchor nonvascular plants to the ground.
A)Mosses
B)Rhizoids
C)Stomata
D)Stems
12.
Which category do most of the world's identified plant species belong to?
A)seedless vascular plants
B)seed plants
C)seedless nonvascular plants
D)mosses
13.
Which one of these is a club moss?
A)a hornwort
B)a ground pine
C)a cactus
D)an African daisy
14.
The organ of a plant that traps light and carries out photosynthesis is __________.
A)the leaves
B)the nucleus
C)the cuticle
D)the rhizoids
15.
Which of these is a seedless vascular plant?
A)a pine
B)a horsetail
C)a liverwort
D)a moss
16.
A plant that completes its life cycle within 12 months is called _________.
A)a spore
B)an angiosperm
C)a biennial
D)an annual
17.
__________ are nonvascular plants that can be found growing on tree trunks.
A)Conifers
B)Angiosperms
C)Mosses
D)Gymnosperms
18.
Maple trees have __________ stems.
A)herbaceous
B)carotenoid
C)waxy
D)woody
19.
What does the suffix -wort mean?
A)herb
B)leaf
C)seed
D)root
20.
Which of these is NOT a gymnosperm?
A)a ginkgo
B)a cycad
C)a conifer
D)a hornwort
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