G3.SCI_Ch.3: Assessment (Plants)

What is the bee doing to the flower?

• pollinating it

• eating its fruit

• germinating it

• scattering its seeds

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• she pollinated a plant

• she did nothing important

• she left food for animals that live in the field

• she helped to scatter a plant's seeds

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How can you classify a rosebush?

• as a plant that makes spores

• as a plant that has a prickly stem

• as a plant that has needles

• as a plant that makes cones

How do leaves help plants?

• they hold the plant up

• they take in water from the soil

• they help make food through photosynthesis

• they help make seeds

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

• thick, waxy stems

• deep tap roots

• seeds made in cones

• leaves with stinging hairs

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

• bark

• stem

• seed

• flower

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• conifer

• fruit

• pollen

• seedling

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How are flowering and coniferous plants alike?

• They begin the life cycle with a seed that germinates.

• They have roots that grow up and a stem that grows down.

• They grow flowers.

• They end the life cycle when seeds fall from cones

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Jake was worried. He wanted to plant seeds, but he did not know which direction to plant them so that the roots would grow down into the soil.

• Jake did not need to worry. The roots will always grow upwards out of the soil

• Jake did not need to worry. The roots will always grow downwards into the soil towards the center of the earth, no matter what direction the seeds are planted.

• Jake should be worried, it matters which direction you plant the seeds.