Chapter 3-PLANTS

What is the bee doing to the flower?

• scattering its seeds
• pollinating it
• germinating it
• eating its fruit

What is the function of roots?

• to move materials from the leaves to other parts of the plant
• to make food for the plant
• to take in gases from the air
• to take in water and nutrients from the soil

How are flowering and coniferous plants alike?

• They begin the life cycle with a seed that germinates.
• They grow flowers.
• They have roots that grow up and a stem that grows down.
• They end the life cycle when seeds fall from cones.

Where in a plant can you find tubes that move minerals from the roots to the leaves?

• leaf
• flower
• stem
• bark

How can you classify a fern?

• as a plant that makes cones
• as a plant that makes spores
• as a plant that has a prickly stem
• as a plant that has needles

What structures help keep a cactus from losing too much water?

• leaves with stinging hairs
• deep tap roots
• seeds made in cones
• thick, waxy stems

What kind of tree grows cones to make seeds?

• deciduous
• flowering
• coniferous
• fibrous

The pictures shows the young plant that begins to grow after a seed germinates.  What is this young plant called?

• seedling
• conifer
• fruit
• pollen

Leaves use energy from the sun to make food for a plant. What else do leaves need to make food?

• carbon dioxide (air) and nitrogen

• water and phosphorus

• carbon dioxide (air) and water

• phosphorus and nitrogen

How do leaves help plants?

• They hold the plant up.
• They help make seeds.
• They take in water from the soil.
• They help make food through photosynthesis.