Tropisms and Turgor Pressure

You put a plant on a table near a window and notice that when you come home at the end of the day the plant has bent towards the window. What is this an example of?

• Geotropism

• Sonotropism

• Phototropism

• Thigmotropism

Plants curling around a pole or mailbox is an example of:

• Phototropism

• Germination

• Turgor pressure

• Thigmotropism

Wilting is a plant's response to:

• High turgor pressure

• Low turgor pressure

• Gravity

• Sunlight

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Turgor pressure is a result of water in what plant cell organelle?

• Mitochondrion

• Nucleus

• Cell wall

• Vacuole

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The root of a plant growing down. 

• Positive Geotropism (Gravitropism)

• Negative Geotropism (Gravitropism)

• Thigmotropism

• Hydrotropism

Which plant would be stiff and rigid?

• A

• B

What is the tropism where plants respond to external stimulus of touch?

• geotropism

• phototropism

• thigotropism

• none of the above

Poison Ivy growing on a tree by touch.

• Gravitropism 

• Phototropism

• Thigmotropism

• Hydrotropism

The shoot of a plant growing up. 

• Positive Geotropism (Gravitropism)

• Negative Geotropism (Gravitropism)

• Thigmotropism

• Hydrotropism

What does this picture represent? 

• Thigmotropism

• Phototropism

• Hydrotropism

• Geotropism (Gravitropism)