Download Plant Test Study Guide

Plant Test Study Guide
1. Are plants unicellular or multicellular? _______________
2. Are plants prokaryotes or eukaryotes? _____________
3. Do plants have a cell wall? _______ If so, what is it made out of? _______________
4. What is the process plants go through where they use sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide to
produce sugars and oxygen gas? _____________________
5. List the 5 things all plants need to survive:
__________________
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6. What is the waxy, waterproof, outer covering of a plant called? _______________
7. What is the most abundant type of cell found in plants called? ______________
8. What is the layer of tissue the covers the entire plant? _________________
9. What did the first plants on earth evolve from? _______________________
10. List the 4 different groups of plants, in order based on their evolution from the most primitive to
the most advanced:
_______________ ______________ ______________ _______________
11. What do bryophytes need to be near to reproduce? _____________
12. What process do bryophytes use to get water? ________________
13. What did plants have to do to become less dependent on water and live on drier land?
_______________
14. What did Tracheophytes develop that Bryophytes lacked? ______________________
15. What makes up vascular tissue? _____________ and _____________
16. Which type of tissue transports water from the roots up through the rest of the plant?
____________
17. Which type of tissue transports nutrients and food throughout the plant? _______________
18. What is a seed made up of? _______________________________________________
19. ______________ is when a seed grows and develops.
20. A seed is ____________ when the embryo inside of it is still alive but not growing.
21. What type of plants possessed the first seeds? __________________
22. What are the 3 main organs of a seed plant? ____________, __________, and __________
23. What holds or anchors seed plants to the ground to help a plant absorb water and nutrients
from the soil? ______________
24. Draw and label the two main types of roots: __________________ and __________________
25. What part of the plant carries out photosynthesis? ______________
26. Draw the structure of a stomate with its surrounding guard cells. _______________________
24. What controls the opening and closing of the stomata? ___________________
27. Does a plant gain or lose water during transpiration?______________ Through what structure
does water move in and out of a plant? _______________
28. Which group of plants have “naked” or exposed seeds? _____________ Where does
reproduction take place in these plants? _____________
29. Which group of plants have “covered” or enclosed seeds? _______________ What are these
seeds normally found inside of? ____________ Where does reproduction take place in these
plants? ____________
30. Why is it more beneficial for a plant to go through sexual reproduction instead of asexual
reproduction? ________________________________
31. How many seed leaves are in a monocot? ________ a dicot? __________
32. Which has parallel veins in leaves, a monocot or a dicot? _____________ Which has netlike
veins? _________
33. Flowers are in multiples of _______ in monocots. They are in multiples of __________ in
dicots.
34. How are vascular bundles arranged in a monocot?____________ a dicot? _____________
35. Plants that only live for a year are called _____________. Plants that live for two years are
called _________. Plants that live for more than two years are called ____________.
36. A male reproductive cell (sex cell) in a flower is called ______________.
37. Where in a flower is pollen produced? ________________ Is this a male or female organ?
__________
38. When pollen is transferred from the male to female structures in a flower, this is called
________________
39. What are the male reproductive parts of a flower called? _____________ female reproductive
parts? __________
40. What is the structure in plants that holds the egg? ____________
41. A _____________ is a ripened ovary that surrounds the seeds.
42. What are the brightly colored structures of plants called? _____________ What do they attract
to the flower? _________________________
43. The outermost circle of flower parts that look like leaves but protect the flower are called
____________.
44. When plants respond to changes in light and dark periods, this is called ________________.
45. Name at least 3 types of plant hormones: _____________, _______________, and
______________
46. A plant’s directional response to some type of environmental stimulus is a _____________.
47. _______________ is when a plant responds to changes in light.
48. _______________ is when a plant responds to changes in gravity.
49. _______________ is when a plant responds to touch.
***Be able to label the structures of a flower***