Internal Structures and Functions of Plants

Plants make their own food using the process of ______________________.

• cellular respiration

• photosynthesis

• photo cytosis

During photosynthesis, a plant needs sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water to produce ________________.

• sugar and oxygen

• carbon dioxide and light

• protein and nitrogen

The ___________system is a collection of small tubes that transports, or carries, materials up, down, and throughout the plant.

• non-vascular

• vascular

• xylem

___________ moves materials in only one

direction—upward from the roots to all the plant parts.

• phloem

• xylem

• golem

It transports food from the leaves to all other parts of the plant.

• Golem

• xylem

• phloem

The female flower part used for reproduction is called ________________.

• pistil

• anther

• ovary

The cactus survives in the desert, where little rain falls because of its big ____________________.

• stem

• thorn

• flower

Without the produced sugar in photosynthesis, the plant’s cells would not have a source of energy and would die. (True or False)

• True

• False

• Unknown