Plants and How They Grow (Dolphin Book)

Choose the word that belongs in the sentence. _________ have long narrow leaves and do not have woody stems.

• Trees

• Grasses

• Evergreens

What kind of tree grows cones to make seeds?

• spring

• summer

• deciduous

• coniferous

Choose the word that belongs in the sentence. Tubes that carry water and minerals from the roots to other parts of the plant are in the _________.

• leaf

• stem

• thorn

• flower

What structures help keep a cactus from losing too much water?

• tubers

• thorns

• woody stems

• stems with a thick, waxy coating

Many plants that lived long ago are extinct. How do scientists know about these plants?

• They grow plant fossils

• They found plant fossils

• They grow plants like them in space

• They found living plants that are like them.

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

Look at the object shown in the illustration below. How has the object formed?

• A plant grew in rock

• A plant was pressed into a rock

• A plant grew in wood. The wood became rock.

• A plant was pressed into mud. The mud became rock.

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

Scientists have learned many interesting things about plants that lived long ago. What is one difference between early plants and those of today?

• Early plants had more fruit

• Early plants had more seeds

• Early plants did not have leaves

• Early plants did not have flowers

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

Which seed part stores food for the seed?

• the fruit

• the flower

• the seed leaf

• the seed coat

In the forest, Jan picked burs off her pants and dropped them. What did she do by dropping burs?

• She pollinated a plant

• she did nothing important

• she left food for the forest animals

• she helped scatter a plant's seeds

Look at the illustration below. What is the bee doing to the flower?

• pollinating it

• eating its fruit

• germinating it

• scattering its seeds

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NGSS.MS-LS1-4