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Question 1

Aside from oxygen, which gas is important plants?

Answer 1

Carbon Dioxide

Question 2

Photosynthesis

Answer 2

the process by which plants make their own food

Question 3

Plants make sugar [blank] from carbon dioxide and water

Answer 3

Glucose

Question 4

Are the chloroplasts in the grana or are the grana in the chloroplasts?

Answer 4

The grana are in the chloroplasts?

Question 5

The pigment in plants that absorbs light energy is called…

Answer 5

Chlorophyll

Question 6

Why are most plants green?

Answer 6

Chlorophyll absorbs many wavelengths but reflect more wavelengths of green light

Question 7

What happens to the light energy that is captured by chlorophyll?

Answer 7

It is used to help form glucose molecules

Question 8

When photosynthesis takes place the plant gives off what gas?

Answer 8

Oxygen [O2]

Question 9

Cellular respiration

Answer 9

The process by which cells use oxygen to produce energy from food

Question 10

Excess glucose is converted to another type of sugar is called [blank] or stored as [blank]

Answer 10

Excess glucose is converted to another type of sugar is called sucrose or stored as starch

Question 11

Stoma

Answer 11

An opening in a leaf’s epidermis

Question 12

Transpiration

Answer 12

The loss of water from the leaves

Question 13

Cuticle

Answer 13

A waxy coating that protects the plant from water loss

Question 14

Guard cells

Answer 14

Double doors for a stoma

Question 15

The base of nearly all food chains on earth is formed by …

Answer 15

Photosynthetic organisms

Question 16

How do some animals get energy from plants indirectly?

Answer 16

They eat animals that eat plants. Example:

Antelope eats grass. Then lion eats antelope

Question 17

What is the largest most diverse group of plants?

Answer 17

Flowering plants

Question 18

What takes place when pollen is moved from anthers to stigmas?

Answer 18

Pollination

Question 19

What happens when sperm fuses with the egg inside an ovule?

Answer 19

Fertilization

Question 20

What develops into a seed after fertilization takes place?

Answer 20

Ovule

Question 21

What is a dormant seed?

Answer 21

An inactive seed

Question 22

Germination

Answer 22

Seed becoming a plant

Question 23

What three things do seeds need in order to sprout?

Answer 23

Water, air, and warm temp.

Question 24

Runners

Answer 24

Above ground stems from which new plants can grow

Question 25

Plantlets

Answer 25

Tiny plants that grow along the edges of a plants leaves and fall off and grow on their own

Question 26

Tubers

Answer 26

Underground stems from which new plants can grow

Question 27

Xylem

Answer 27

Vascular tissue that transports water and minerals through a plant

Question 28

Phloem

Answer 28

Vascular tissue that transports food molecules to all parts of a plant

Question 29

Where are root systems located?

Answer 29

Underground

Question 30

What are the three main functions of roots?

Answer 30

Supply plant with water and dissolved minerals

Hold plants securely in soil

Store surplus food during photosynthesis