STEMS

Question 1

where leaf or leaves are attached?

Answer 1

NODE

Question 2

stem region between nodes?

Answer 2

INTERNODE

Question 3

leaf, flattened

Answer 3

BLADE

Question 4

twig by a stalk

Answer 4

PETIOLE

Question 5

each angle between a petiole and stem contains a _____?

Answer 5

BUD

Question 6

the angle between a petiole & stem?

Answer 6

AXIS

Question 7

bud located in the axis?

Answer 7

AXILLARY BUD

Question 8

aka as “flowering plants”?

Answer 8

ANGIOSPERMS

Question 9

modified leaf-protecting, covering bud?

Answer 9

BUD SCALES

Question 10

single bud found at the apex?

Answer 10

TERMINAL BUD

Question 11

stem’s primary growing plant?

Answer 11

BUD

Question 12

can tell how old the twig is?

Answer 12

BUD SCALE SCARS

Question 13

appendages that may remain throughout the life of the leaf?

Answer 13

STIPULES

Question 14

fine line encircling the twig?

Answer 14

STIPULE SCARS

Question 15

loses their leaves annually?

Answer 15

DECIDUOUS

Question 16

mark that leaves on the stem when a leaf falls down?

Answer 16

LEAF SCARS

Question 17

marks left on the stem after years?

Answer 17

TERMINAL BUD SCALE SCARS

Question 18

Tiny bumps in leaf scar where vascular
tissue enter the leaf from the stem?

Answer 18

BUNDLE SCARS

Question 19

pores that allow gas exchange?

Answer 19

LENTICEL

Question 20

3 External form of a woody plant?

Answer 20

alternate/alternately arranged, opposite/oppositely arranged, whorled

Question 21

groups of 3 or more, whorls?

Answer 21

WHORLED

Question 22

attached in pairs?

Answer 22

OPPOSITE/OPPOSITELY ARRANGED

Question 23

twigs alternately or in a spiral around the stem?

Answer 23

ALTERNATE/ALTERNATELY ARRANGED

Question 24

artificially uniting stems?

Answer 24

GRAFTING

Question 25

grows indefinitely?

Answer 25

INDETERMINATE GROWTH

Question 26

aerial part of the plant?

Answer 26

STEM

Question 27

climbing or storage of food or water?

Answer 27

STEM

Question 28

exposes leaves for photosynthesis?

Answer 28

STEM

Question 29

site where leaves and reproductive shoots are attached?

Answer 29

STEM

Question 30

4 Functions of Stems?

Answer 30

• SUPPORT
• CONDUCTION
• GROWTH
• STORAGE

Question 31

function: physical support for leaves

Answer 31

SUPPORT

Question 32

function: contain vascular leaves?

Answer 32

CONDUCTION

Question 33

function: cell division and elongation?

Answer 33

GROWTH

Question 34

function: stores food and water?

Answer 34

STORAGE

Question 35

young stem with leaves (1 year old or less)?

Answer 35

SHOOT

Question 36

stem more than 1 year old?

Answer 36

BRANCH

Question 37

young stem, dormant in winter (1 year old or less)?

Answer 37

TWIG

Question 38

woody plants main stem?

Answer 38

TRUNK

Question 39

types of stem: taller, thin, soft

Answer 39

HERBACEOUS STEM

Question 40

types of stem: taller, thicker, harder

Answer 40

WOODY STEM

Question 41

Primary Growth increases ______ of stem?

Answer 41

LENGTH

Question 42

Secondary Growth increases ______ of stem?

Answer 42

THICKNESS

Question 43

SAM means?

Answer 43

Shoot Aperical Meristem

Question 44

herbaceous plants undergo, primary growth or secondary growth?

Answer 44

PRIMARY GROWTH

Question 45

Secondary growth builds, woody stem or herbaceous stem?

Answer 45

WOODY STEM

Question 46

older darker wood
at the center. No longer conducts
materials.

Answer 46

HEARTWOOD

Question 47

lighter; still functioning
xylem.

Answer 47

SAPWOOD

Question 48

no fibers or vessel
elements; only tracheids.

Answer 48

SOFTWOOD

Question 49

wood of woody dicots

Answer 49

HARDWOOD

Question 50

all tissues outside the
vascular cambium, including
the phloem

Answer 50

BARK

Question 51

consist of
primary and secondary
phloem

Answer 51

INNER BARK

Question 52

consist of cork tissue and
cork cambium

Answer 52

OUTER BARK (Periderm)