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Vocabulary Activity
Those Puzzling Plants
After you finish reading the chapter, give this puzzle a try! Solve each of the clues
below, and write your answer in the spaces provided.
1. a plant with special tissues to deliver water and nutrients from one part of the
plant to another
_____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____
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1
2. male reproductive structure in a flower
_____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____
3
4
3. Tiny granules produced in the anthers of flowers
_____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____
2
8
4. rootlike structures that hold mosses in place
_____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____
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7
5
5. tissue that conducts food in vascular plants
_____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____
10
6. structures that cover and protect buds of flowers
_____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____
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7. seed plants without fruit or flowers
_____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____
9
8. part of a flower that contains the ovules
_____ _____ _____ _____ _____
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9. structures that attract pollinators to the flower
_____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____
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10. plants without vascular tissue to transport materials from one part of the
plant to another
_____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____
13
14
25
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11. seed plants with flowers
_____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____
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12. tissue that transports water and minerals through vascular plants
_____ _____ _____ _____ _____
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13. underground stem of a fern
_____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____
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14. female reproductive structure in a flower
_____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____
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15
15. the transfer of pollen from the male reproductive structures to the female
structures of seed plants
_____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____
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Write the letter that corresponds to each number in the empty boxes to form the
beginning of a well-known poem.
D
B
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18. A, cuticle
19. C, palisade layer
Chapter Test C
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
A
A
A
C
D
A
C
C
D
B
A
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
18.
19.
20.
21.
F
H
E
G
green algae
rhizome
angiosperm
monocot
stamen
fibrous root
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
angiosperms
xylem
rhizome
pistil
pollination
SciLinks Activity
Answers will vary. Students should fill in
all cells with appropriate information.
Standardized Test
Preparation
READING
Passage 1
1. B
2. H
3. B
Passage 2
1. D
2. F
3. A
INTERPRETING GRAPHICS
1.
2.
3.
4.
D
I
C
H
MATH
1.
2.
3.
4.
C
H
C
F
Vocabulary Activity
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
vascular
stamen
pollen
rhizoids
phloem
sepals
gymnosperms
ovary
petals
nonvascular
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