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Science: Ch. 12, section 1 & 2 Quiz Review
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Why couldn’t you eat much without plants?
1. What does a plant cuticle do?
2. The green pigment that captures energy from the sun is ________________________.
3. Plants use energy from sunlight to make food from carbon dioxide and water in a process called
__________________________.
4. A rigid structure that surrounds a plant and helps it stay upright is the __________ ____________.
5. A plant that does not have specialized tissues to move water and nutrients through the plant.
6. A plant that has tissues to deliver water and nutrients from one part of the plant to another.
7. Nonflowering seed plants.
8. Flowering seed plants.
9. Because of similarities, some scientists think green algae and plants share a common _____________.
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10. Name the two groups of seedless plants.
11. Do nonvascular plants have tissue to transport water?
12. Nonvascular plants usually live in _________________ places.
13. The name of the rootlike structure that keeps nonvascular plants in place.
14. List at least 5 reasons why nonvascular plants are important.
15. What can be dried and burned as fuel, and also used in potting soil?
16. How do ferns and other seedless vascular plants reproduce?
17. What is a rhizome?
18. Which fuels were formed by seedless plants that dies 300 million years ago?
1. keeps plants from drying out
2. chlorophyll
3. photosynthesis
4. cell wall
5. nonvascular plant
6. vascular plant
7. gymnosperm
8. angiosperm
9. ancestor
10. seedless vascular plants and nonvascular plants
11. No
12. damp
13. rhizoid
14. usually the first plants to live in a new environment, when they die and
decompose they help form a thin layer of soil, new plants can grow in the soil,
more nonvascular plants may grow and hold the soil in place, reduction in soil
erosion, some animals eat nonvascular plants, other animals use nonvascular
plants for nesting materials
15. peat mosses
16. sexually and asexually
17. an underground stem from which new leaves and roots grow
18. coal and oil (fossil fuels)