Plant Classification and Processes Vocabulary

What are plants with a well-developed system for transporting water and food that also have true roots, stems, and leaves?

• vascular plants
• nonvascular plants
• mosses

What material transports water and minerals from the roots to the rest of the plants?

• phloem
• xylem
• chlorophyll

What material transports food from the leaves to the rest of the plant?

• xylem
• phloem
• chlorophyll

What do you call hard stems made of wood?

• herbaceous stems
• woody stems
• xylem stems

What are soft, green stems such as grass, dandelions, and tomato plants?

• woody stems
• xylem stems
• herbaceous stems

What are plants that do not have a well-developed system for transporting food water and also do not have true roots, stems, and leaves?

• vascular plants
• nonvascular plants
• gymnosperms

What are three examples of nonvascular plants?

• grasses, daffodils and tomatoes
• mosses, tomatoes and dandelions
• mosses, liverworts, hornworts
• ferns, mosses, grasses

What is the process in which plants use carbon dioxide, water, and sunlight to make their own food?

• transpiration
• photosynthesis
• respiration

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

What three things are needed for photosynthesis?

• sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water
• sunlight, oxygen, and water
• sunlight, glucose, and oxygen
• sunlight, oxygen, and carbon dioxide

What are structures found in the leaf of a plant that contain chlorophyll and where photosynthesis takes place?

• chloroplasts
• nucleus
• guard cells
• stomata