Plant Systems and Homeostasis

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

• compensating

• homeostasis

• balancing

• routine

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

• vacuole

• stems

• cones

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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

THe change in leaf color on these trees is one way the trees maintain ______

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Turgor pressure causes which of the following?

• Roots to grow down due to gravity

• A plant to grow towards the light

• A wilted plant to stand upright

• Leaves to fall off of a tree

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Maintaining a stable internal

environment is called

• homeostasis

• equilibrium

• balance

• evenness

When all parts of your body are working together to keep you stable, this is called

• Exclusion

• Rockstasis

• Homeostasis

• Kosher

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

• respiration

• stomata

• transpiration

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

• water

• sugar

• minerals

• hormones

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