What is a Plant?

Which feature of the cell is present only in photosynthetic organisms?

• mitochondrion

• central vacuole

• chloroplast

• cell membrane

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What is the term for organisms that can make their own food?

• generators

• producers

• creators

• consumers

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Which of these does cellulose contain?

• lignin

• wax

• glucose molecules

• tubelike cells

Plants without vascular tissue transport water and nutrients using osmosis and what?

• diffusion

• absorption

• capillary action

• desiccation

Which of the following is the water storage compartment in a cell?

• cell walls

• chloroplasts

• mitochondria

• vacuoles

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Animal cells don't have cell walls like plants do. What body part helps make up for this difference?

• muscles

• bones

• brains

• hearts

Plants use an outside energy source to make their own food, so they are called ______.

• secondary consumers

• primary consumers

• producers

• decomposers

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Which is a major advantage for plants that took to living on land?

• plenty of oxygen

• plenty of sunlight

• more animals

• fewer predators

Plants have a waxy coating to protect them from water loss and some insects

• called the cell wall

• called chloroplasts

• called cellulose

• called the cuticle

Plant have cell walls made of ________.

• chloroplasts

• cellulose

• cuticles

• mitochondria