Plant Structures

What part of plants absorbs water and nutrients from the soil as well as supports the plant?

• Flowers

• Leaves

• Stem

• Roots

Answer explanation

Under ideal conditions, roots can grow half an inch a day.

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What part of plants captures sunlight and performs photosynthesis?

• Flowers

• Leaves

• Stem

• Roots

Answer explanation

Charles Barnes first introduced the term photosynthesis in 1893.

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What part of plants helps with reproduction by attracting flying insects?

• Flowers

• Leaves

• Stem

• Roots

Answer explanation

The flowers of the sunflower turn towards the sun. Thus, it’s called a sunflower.

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What part of a plant helps with transporting water and nutrients and holds up the leaves and flowers?

• Flowers

• Leaves

• Stem

• Roots

Answer explanation

A redwood tree in California named Hyperion is the world's tallest tree at 379.7 feet tall.

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What part of a plant moves water from the roots to the leaves?

• Xylem

• Phloem

• Both

Answer explanation

A healthy 100-foot-tall tree has about 200,000 leaves. A tree this size can take 11,000 gallons of water from the soil and release it into the air again, as oxygen and water vapor, in a single growing season.

What part of a plant moves nutrients from the roots to the leaves and sugars from the leaves to the rest of the plant?

• Xylem

• Phloem

• Both

Answer explanation

Sugarcane is the world's largest crop by production quantity, with 1.8 billion tonnes produced in 2017

What does a plant need to photosynthesize?

• Sunlight

• Water

• Carbon dioxide

• All of these

Answer explanation

Photosynthesis turns carbon dioxide into oxygen, makikng life possible on earth.

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What does photosynthesis do?

• Makes sugars that the plant uses as food

• Uses the carbon from carbon dioxide to build plant structures

• Make the plant respirate, or breathe out, oxygen that animals need to survive

• All of the above.

Answer explanation

Plants are green because of the chloroplasts used in photosynthesis.

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