2.3 Roots, Steams, And leaves

Question 1

A thin covering made up of cells that protect the root tip of a plant as it grows into the soil

Answer 1

Root Cap

Question 2

Any of the threadlike projections from a plant root that absorbs water and dissolved minerals from the soil.

Answer 2

Root Hair

Question 3

A outermost layer of such plant parts as roots and leaves.

Answer 3

Epidermis

Question 4

The layer of tissue just inside the epidermis of a plants’s roots and stems.

Answer 4

Cortex

Question 5

The tissue through which water and minerals move up through a plant.

Answer 5

Xylem

Question 6

The tissue through which food from the rest of the leaves moves down through the rest of the plant.

Answer 6

Phloem

Question 7

The layer in plants that separates the xylem from the phloem.

Answer 7

Cambium

Question 8

The loss of water through plants leaves.

Answer 8

Transpiration

Question 9

The food making process in green plants that uses sunlight.

Answer 9

Photosynthesis

Question 10

The release of energy in plants and animals from food (sugar).

Answer 10

Respiration

Question 11

What a living thing does as a result of a stimulus.

Answer 11

Response

Question 12

Something in the environment that causes a living thing to react.

Answer 12

Stimulius

Question 13

A response of a plant towards or away from a stimulus.

Answer 13

Tropism

Question 14

A characteristic that enables a living thing to survive in its environment.

Answer 14

Adaptation