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Name
Date
What Is a Plant?
Class
Chapter 12 Lesson 1
Understanding Main Ideas
Answer the following questions in the spaces provided.
1. What characteristics do all plants share?
2. What do plants need to live successfully on land?
Building Vocabulary
Fill in the blank to complete each statement.
3. A group of similar cells that perform a specific function is called a(n)
___________________.
4. The internal transporting system through which water, minerals, and food move
inside the plant is called
.
5. A(n)
is a structure inside a plant’s cell in which food is made.
6. The process by which plants make food is called
7. A(n)
plants.
_____________.
is a waxy, waterproof layer that covers the leaves and stems of most
8. The sac inside a plant cell where water, wastes, and food are stored is called a(n)
________.
9. The green pigment called
plants.
is necessary to the food-making process in
Name
Date
What Is a Plant?
Class
Chapter 12 Lesson 1
Write the letter of the correct answer on the line at the left.
1.
Which of the following is thought to
be the ancestor of land plants?
A bacteria
B red algae
C ferns
D green algae
2.
Organisms that produce their own
food are called
A heterotrophs
B autosomes
C autotrophs
D herbivores
3.
The sac inside a plant cell where
water, food, and wastes are stored is the
A vacuole
B chloroplast
C chlorophyll
D cuticle
4.
Two structures found in plant cells but
NOT in animal cells are
A cell wall and cell membrane
B chloroplasts and cell membrane
C cell wall and chloroplasts
D vacuole and nucleus
If the statement is true, write true. If the statement is false, change the underlined word
or words to make the statement true.
5.
The cell wall helps a plant retain water.
6.
During photosynthesis, plants produce carbon dioxide.
7.
The green pigment found in specialized plant structures is called
chlorophyll.
8.
9.
10.
The system of tubelike structures inside a plant through which water,
minerals, and food move is called root tissue.
Nearly all plants are unicellular.
The energy for photosynthesis comes from the sun.