2.3 Roots, Stems and Leaves

Question 1

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

Answer 1

root cap

Question 2

Any of the threadlike projects from a plant root that absorb water and dissolved minerals from the soil

Answer 2

root hair

Question 3

An outermost layer of such plant parts as roots or leaves

Answer 3

epidermis

Question 4

The layer of tissue just inside the epidermis of a plant’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 leaves moves up and down through the rest of a plant

Answer 6

phloem

Question 7

The layer in a plant that separates the xylem from the phloem

Answer 7

cambium

Question 8

The loss of water through a plants leaves

Answer 8

transpirtation

Question 9

The food-making process in green plants that uses sunlight

Answer 9

photosynthisis

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

stimulus

Question 13

A response of a plant torwards 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