Plant Structure

Multiple Choice

What protects the outside of the plant?

• dermal tissue

• xylem

• phloem

• vascular tissue

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What is the outer layer of dermal cells that secrete cuticle?

Multiple Choice

What kind of tissue is consistently present in tall plants?

• phloem

• xylem

• vascular tissue

• cork

Multiple Choice

What kind of tissue has been affected by a mutation if a plant fails to produce a cuticle?

• dermal tissue

• ground tissue

• meristematic tissue

• vascular tissue

Multiple Choice

What is considered the "workhorse" of plant tissues?

• vascular tissue

• dermal tissue

• ground tissue

Multiple Choice

What kind of cells are very thick and provide flexible support for a plant?

• Sclerenchyma cells

• Undiffereniated cells

• parenchyma cells

• collenchyma cells

Multiple Choice

What kind of cells contain chloroplasts for photosynthesis and stores the products of photosynthesis

• Sclerenchyma cells

• Undiffereniated cells

• parenchyma cells

• collenchyma cells

Multiple Choice

What kind of cells are thick support cells and when they die they contribute to the woody structures within a plant?

• sclerenchyma cells

• undiffereniated cells

• parenchyma cells

• collenchyma cells

Multiple Choice

What kind of tissue is abundant in the region of a root just above the root cap?

• ground tissue

• meristematic tissue

• dermal tissue

Multiple Choice

What kind of leaves lose their leaves each fall and grow them again the following spring?

• evergreens

• deciduous

• blade

• petiole

Multiple Choice

What kind of leaves retain their leaves throughout the year?

• evergreens

• deciduous

• blade

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What was the broad part of a leaf

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Where the blade attaches to the stem

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What are tiny leaf-like structures at the base of the petiole

• blade

• petiole

• stipules

• veins

Multiple Select

What are the two kinds of veins in leaves?

• monocot

• petiole

• dicot

Multiple Choice

What kind of veins run parallel to each other

• parallel venation

• netted venation

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What kind of veins branch and form a network?

• parallel venation

• netted venation

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What are the four types of leaves?

• pinnately compound

• bipinnately compound

• palmate

• complex

• simple

Multiple Choice

What kind of leaf is divided into multiple leaflets connected along one main stem?

• bipinnately compound

• pinnately compound

• palmate

• simple

Multiple Choice

What kind of leaf is divided into leaflets that further divide into smaller leaflets

• bipinnately compound

• pinnately compound

• palmate

• simple

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What kind of leaf is divided into two or more leaflets connected in one central location

• bipinnately compound

• pinnately compound

• palmate

• simple

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What kind of leaf is not divided into leaflets

• bipinnately compound

• pinnately compound

• palmate

• simple

Multiple Choice

What are the little openings on the underside of each leaf where the gas exchange occurs

• stomata

• guard cells

• simple

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What are the modified epidermal cells that open and close a stoma

• stomata

• simple leaves

• guard cells

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What are the tiny structures at the nodes that will develop into branches?

• buds

• internodes

• nodes

• stoma

Multiple Choice

What are the points along a stem that produce leaves

• buds

• internodes

• nodes

• stoma

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What does vascular cambium produce?

• xylem

• phloem

• none of these

• bark

Multiple Choice

What are the regions between the nodes

• buds

• internodes

• nodes

• stoma

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What are the two groups of stems

• herbaceous

• cork cambium

• woody

• meristematic tissue

Multiple Choice

What are tiny spores in the stem

• lenticels

• cortex

• cork cambium

• vascular combium

Multiple Choice

What is the thin layer of meristematic tissue in the stem?

• vascular cambium

• cork cambium

• epidermis

Multiple Choice

What gives us an estimate of secondary growth?

• annual rings

• summerwood

• springwood

Multiple Choice

When is the largest amount of xylem produced?

• Spring

• Summer

• Autumn

• Winter

Multiple Choice

Which rings in a tree are wide and light-colored?

• springwood

• summerwood

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Which rings in a tree are thin and dark-colored?

• springwood

• summerwood

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The spongy ground tissue in the center of herbaceous stems

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is not one of the characteristics of dicots?

• netted ventation

• scattered vascular bundles

• secondary growth

• two cotyledons

Multiple Select

What are the two types of root systems?

• Taproot

• Tapdance root

• there is only one

• Fibrous root system

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What is an example of a taproot system

Multiple Choice

Roots are covered by an epidermis

• true

• false

Multiple Choice

What is under the epidermis and stores materials, helps plants take in water and minerals, and is made of ground tissue

• dermis

• cortex

• endodermis

• epidermis

Multiple Choice

What is under the cortex and regulates the flow of materials between the cortex and the vascular tissues

• roots

• cortex

• endodermis

• dermis