Chapter 4 Test

Question 1

What is true about vascular tissue?

A. Plants can grow tall without vascular tissue
B. Nonvascular plants are better suited to on land
C. Vascular tissue transports water and food through out a plants body
D. Vascular tissue give a plant strength and stability

Answer 1

C & D

Question 2

Why must ferns, club mosses, and horsetails grow in moist surroundings?

Answer 2

The plant releases spores into their surroundings where they grow into gametophyte

Question 3

True or false?

Ferns are small plants that can only grow low to the ground

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Why are the developing leaves on many ferns called fiddleheads?

Answer 4

They resemble the top of a violin.

Question 5

Fern leaves are called?

Answer 5

Fronds

Question 6

What is the function of the cuticle on the upper surface of fern leaves?

Answer 6

Help the plant retain water

Question 7

Two characteristics that ferns, club mosses, and horsetails share.

Answer 7

True vascular tissue

They do not produce seeds