Vascular System

[SC6E6 C] If you placed a stalk of celery in a vase with colored water, what would happen?

• Only the very bottom of the stalk would change colors.

• The entire stalk would change colors.

• Nothing would happen.

[SC6E6 F] One of the properties that helps move water up into a plant is the attraction of water droplets to one another, which is called __________.

• suspension

• vascularity

• cohesion

[SC6E6 G] Some plant tissues contain __________, which separates the xylem and phloem, and makes more of both as the plant grows.

• cambium

• a root cap

• carbon dioxide

[SC6E6 D] The force that powers the vascular system is called __________ action.

• pumping

• capillary

• root

[SC6E6 B] The three main parts of the vascular system of a plant are the roots, the __________, and the leaves.

• stem

• root cap

• phloem

[SC6E6 E] The transport tubes that carry food downward through the plant from the leaves to the roots are the __________.

• phloem

• xylem

• cambium

[SC6E6 A] The transport tubes that carry water and nutrients upward through a plant from the roots to the leaves are the __________.

• phloem

• cambium

• xylem

[SC6E6 H] Tiny root hairs form on the roots of a plant to __________.

• make food for the plant

• absorb water and nutrients from the soil

• fight off predators and other plants

[SC6E6 I] How are your circulatory system and the vascular system of a plant alike?

• Both transport food and water.

• Both have a system of conducting tubes.

• Both carry materials upward against gravity.

• all of the above

[SC6E6 K] Vascular tissue is __________.

• found only in the stems

• cell tissue that moves materials around a plant

• all found in the cambium

• all living tissue