Investigating Plant Systems and Homeostasis

The maintenance of an organism’s internal environment is called:

• compensating
• homeostasis
• balancing
• routine

Plants have two organ systems, the _________________ system and the root system.

• vascular

• seedless

• shoot

• non-vascular

The body of a plant is made up of organs called roots, ________, and leaves.

• vacuole

• stems

• cones

Why do plants wilt?

• low turgor pressure
• high turgor pressure
• too much water
• no cell membrane

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What is the vascular tissue that carries water throughout a plant?

• phloem

• seedling

• xylem

___________________________ is the loss of water through the pores on plant leaves.

• respiration

• stomata

• transpiration

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

Transpiration occurs at _________

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Transpiration helps plants to absorb and carry _________ and ________ to all parts of the plants

• water

• sugar

• minerals

• hormones

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

______________, pores on leaves through which plants lose water and exchange carbon dioxide and oxygen.

• stomata

• seed

• stem

______________ control the opening and closing of stoma

• Palisade mesophyll cells

• Guard cells

• Epidermal cells

• Xylem