Biology STAAR Review #3

Front

Which plant parts are the tubes that carry water throughout the plant? Options: xylem, phloem, roots, leaves

Back

xylem

Front

Which plant parts carry sugars and other nutrients throughout the plant? Options: phloem, xylem, roots, leaves

Back

phloem

Front

Vascular tissue that transports water and minerals UPWARDS from a plant's roots is known as ______.

Back

Xylem

Front

The plant tissue that carries food materials DOWNWARD from the leaves to the rest of the plant is the ______.

Back

Phloem

Front

Barnacles create home sites by attaching themselves to whales. This relationship neither harms nor benefits the whales.

Back

commensalism

Front

Mistletoe extracts water and nutrients from a spruce tree. The spruce tree is harmed. Options: parasitism, commensalism, mutualism

Back

parasitism

Front

Two male Giraffes are fighting over the last green leaf of a tree that is dying.

Back

Competition

Front

A bee and a flower work together to benefit each other. The bee helps the flower by pollinating it and the flower helps the bee by providing it with nectar. This is an example of _________________.

Back

mutual relationship

Front

Inherited trait that helps an organism survive is a(n) __________.

Back

Adaptation

Front

Structures with the same parts have different functions; suggests that organisms share a common ancestry

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homologous structures