vascular bundles in plants

Specific type of plant tissue that transports water and minerals from the roots, through the stems, to leaves

• vascular plant

• nonvascular plant

• xylem

• phloem

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

• Phloem
• Stomata
• Chlorophyll
• Xylem

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of a dicot?

• Two cotyledons

• Vascular tissue bundles arranged in a ring

• Floral parts often in multiples of three

• One main root

Specific type of plant tissue that transports food (sugar) made in the leaves to the entire plant

• vascular plant

• nonvascular plant

• xylem

• phloem

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Examples of these plants include mosses, liverworts, and other plants with no xylem or phloem

• dicot

• vascular plant

• monocot

• nonvascular plant

Other than transporting water, what is a function of xylem?

• making food

• transporting food

• helping support the plant

• catching light

The plant transport system are made up of ____ types of tubes.

• 1
• 2
• 3
• many

Water vapour exits a plant leaf by

• the stomata
• the epidermis
• the palisade cells
• the spongy mesophyll

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

Transpiration is

• the movement of water through a plant from the roots up the stem
• the loss of water from the leaves of a plant by the process of evaporation
• the flow of water into plant roots by osmosis from the soil
• the process of minerals and sugars moving through plant veins

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NGSS.MS-LS1-2

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

This is the definition for which word:The movement of particles down a concentration gradient (from a high concentration to a low concentration)

• Osmosis
• Diffusion
• Active transport
• Transpiration