Plant Systems and Animal Systems

What does phloem transport?

• Water

• Minerals

• Fruit

• Sugar

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Water and minerals move in which direction within the plant

• Upward

• Down

What does xylem transport?

• Water and minerals

• Water only

• Sugar

• Food

What do the guard cells do?

• Control active transport

• Control nutrients moving into the cell

• Controls the rate of transpiration (loss of water through the leaf)

Where does sugar transport begin?

• Roots

• Leaves

• Root hairs

• Vascular bundles

Where is xylem found in the plant?

• leave -> roots -> stem

• roots -> stem -> leaves

• root hairs -> leaves -> veins

• stem -> roots

What name is given to plant responses?

• Taxes

• Kineses

• Tropisms

• Germination

chemical that causes cells to react in a certain way

• stimulus
• photosynthesis
• stomata
• hormone

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-7

The change in direction of plant growth in response to gravity

• phototropism
• stimulus
• gravitropism
• tropism

Thigmotropism is a response to 

• sound
• light
• touch
• smell