Photosynthesis

Question 1

Evolution of plants includes

Answer 1

• Development of pollen
• Development if vascular tissue that conducts water and solutes throughout the plant body
• Seed production
• Flower production

Question 2

Are plants eukaryotic or prokaryotic?

Answer 2

Eukaryotic

Question 3

Photosynthetic means…

Answer 3

Plants use light energy to make sugar

Question 4

Are plants unicellular or multicellular

Answer 4

Plants are multicellular

Question 5

Plants have a cell wall made of…

Answer 5

Cellulose

Question 6

What do plants store the food made as light energy as?

Answer 6

Starch

Question 7

Plants need what three things to flourish

Answer 7

Water, sunlight, and minerals

Question 8

Plants exchange ____ during photosynthesis

Answer 8

gases

Question 9

How do plants get water to the leaves?

Answer 9

Through a transport system

Question 10

What is the plant transport system composed of?

Answer 10

Vascular tissue, stems, and roots

Question 11

What are root structures designed to absorb?

Answer 11

Water and minerals

Question 12

What anchors plants?

Answer 12

Roots

Question 13

Plants house _____ _______ bacteria

Answer 13

nitrogen fixing

Question 14

What root is the largest in the system

Answer 14

Taproot

Question 15

What roots grow deep in soil?

Answer 15

Taproot

Question 16

What roots become thick and fleshy?

Answer 16

Taproot

Question 17

What roots are carrots, turnips, and dandelions?

Answer 17

Taproots

Question 18

Numerous equal sized small roots are…

Answer 18

fibrous

Question 19

Corns and greens are _______ roots

Answer 19

fibrous

Question 20

What pushes the root through soil and delicate tissue?

Answer 20

Root cap

Question 21

Meristematic Zone is the….

Answer 21

mitotic growth region

Question 22

Apical meristem is located at the….

Answer 22

tip of stems and roots

Question 23

Where does the length of plants increase?

Answer 23

Apical meristem

Question 24

Newly formed cells are in the

Answer 24

Elongation zone

Question 25

The differentiation zone or maturation zone is where the….

Answer 25

beginning of the first root hair where the root cells begin to differentiate

Question 26

What do the root cells are the maturation zone differentiate into?

Answer 26

Special cell types

Question 27

What do root hairs do?

Answer 27

Increase the surface area for water absorbtion

Question 28

Quiescent center consists of…

Answer 28

Rarely dividing pool of stem cells within the social meristem

Question 29

The epidermis is the _______ layer of the root

Answer 29

outer

Question 30

What does the epidermis absorb?

Answer 30

Water and essential materials

Question 31

Endodermis is the _________ boundary that separates the _____ vascular ______ from the ______ cortex and serves as a barrier for selective _________ uptake

Answer 31

cylindrical inner tissue outer nutrient

Question 32

Vessels are….

Answer 32

elongated tube-like structures

Question 33

What do vessels do?

Answer 33

Conduct solutes and water

Question 34

Vascular cylinder is….

Answer 34

A cylinder in the middle of the roots

Question 35

What does the vascular cylinder have?

Answer 35

Xylem and Phloem

Question 36

What runs from the roots to leaves and is a network of tissues that transports water and minerals?

Answer 36

Vascular tissue

Question 37

What does the xylem do?

Answer 37

Carries water and minerals up to the roots, to the stems, and leaves

Question 38

What does phloem do?

Answer 38

Carries dissolved food up/down and throughout the plant

Question 39

What captures light energy for photosynthesis?

Answer 39

Leaves

Question 40

The leaf shape is broad and flat to increase __________ _____ for sunlight absorption

Answer 40

surface area

Question 41

Why is the leaf shape broad and flat?

Answer 41

To increase surface area for sunlight absorption

Question 42

The leaf shape is also capable of _________ against water _____ and preventing ____ buildup

Answer 42

protecting loss snow

Question 43

The slide of a leaf is the…..

Answer 43

flat section

Question 44

What does the blade collect?

Answer 44

Sunlight

Question 45

The petiole of the leaf connects the _____ to the ____

Answer 45

blade stem