Botany- Growth and Flowering plants

What gas can help fruits to ripen faster?

• Oxygen

• Nitrogen

• Ethylene

• Sulfur

A plant's stem grows towards the source of light to it's left. This is known as

• phototropism

• negative phototropism

• positive phototropism

• neutral phototropism

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-5

What is the side to side oscillating movement of a plant called?

• Nutation

• Nodding

• Twining

• Contraction

What is the growth response that results from the stimulus of gravity?

• Gravitropism

• Gravitrotism

• Gravitational Growth

• Nutation

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-5

What is it called when a plants leaves and stems fold in on a regular 24 hour cycle?

• Circadian Rhythm

• Cardiac Rhythm

• Sleep Cycle

• Melatonic Rhythm

What is it called when leaves twist on their petioles in response to illumination to become perpendicular to the light source?

• Light tracking

• Light Resonance

• Solar Tracking

• Solar Resonance

Plants curling around a pole or mailbox is an example of:

• Phototropism

• Germination

• Turgor pressure

• Thigmotropism

This plant's response to touch is ???

• Phototropism

• Germination

• Thigmotropism

• Gravitropism/geotropism

A plant responds to it's environmental temperature. What kind of tropism is this?

• Thigmotropism

• Traumatropism

• Thermotropism

• Aerotropism

What is the term for when day length is directly related to the onset of flowering in plants?

• Phototaxic

• Photoperiodism

• Lightoperiodism

• Lightotaxic