3.L.14.2 - Plants respond to Stimuli

How do plants respond to light?

• By growing leaves

• They turn the same color as the light.

• By bending towards the light

Raul grows seedlings near a window located on the right of the picture. How do the plants respond to light?

• Leaves close as they touch the window.

• Roots grow downward toward the soil

• Stems and leaves grow toward the light.

• Stems and leaves grow away from the light.

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How do plants respond to gravity?

• The roots and stem both

  grow downward.

• The roots and stem both

  grow upward.

• The roots grow downward and

  the stem grows upward.

• The roots grow upward and the

  stem grows downward.

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Which stimulus affected the direction of the stem and leaves?

• heat

• light

• gravity

• all of the above

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Why did the leaves of this tomato plant wilt?

• heat

• light

• gravity

• all of the above

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Plants will always grow toward this stimulus, and they normally take the shortest path to it.

• grass

• light

• gravity

• heat

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What best describes the way a plant's roots grow?

• Roots grow in any direction

• Roots grow down into the ground

• Roots grow up towards the sun

• Roots grow from the flowers

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Which picture shows a plant that has been left in a sunny window for several days?

• Picture E

• Picture F

• Picture G

• Picture H

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Joe places his places his plant by a light. The picture shows the plant and the light. What would happen of Joe placed the light on the other side of the plant?

• the leaves would die

• the flower would close

• the roots would grow upward

• the stem would grow towards the light

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Carl wants to compare how plants respond to light. Which of the following investigations should he do?

• put two plants in the freezer

• put two plants in a warm spot

• put one plant in a cold spot and one under a lamp

• put one plant near a window and one plant in a dark corner

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