Discovery Education Video: Investigating Plant Structure and Function

Sap flowing abundantly through trees in the spring is one example of the following plant process:

a. germination b. communication c. respiration d. transport

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What specific tissues are responsible for moving materials such as sugar and water throughout the plant?

a. xylem and phloem b. cork c. ground tissue d. stomata

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Which of the following is not a function of plant stems?

a. support b. transport c. water and food storage d. anchoring of the plant

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Mitosis is continually occurring in special types of plant tissue called:

a. skin tissue b. osteocytes c. nerve tissue d. meristematic tissue

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What are the small openings that regulate the movement of gases and water vapor into and out of the leaf?

a. pores b. stomata c. vacuoles d. roots

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What is one of the important jobs of vascular tissue in plants?

a. to conduct materials throughout the plant b. root growth c. to carry out photosynthesis d. to protect the plan

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Plant growth results from cells dividing in the following process:

a. disjunction b. osmosis c. mitosis d. diffusion

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What plant structures are designed to capture light for photosynthesis?

a. leaves b. roots c. nerve cells d. root hairs

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The majority of growth in roots occurs in the:

a. meristematic zone b. elongation zone c. maturation zone d. terminal zone

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In many types of woody-stemmed trees the growth of new xylem during each growing season forms:

a. leaves b. sap c. annual growth rings d. chloroplasts

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