Plant Structures

What do plants produce that animals, including humans, benefit from for their survival?

• food and oxygen
• water and carbon dioxide
• oxygen only
• glucose and carbon dioxide

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Which plant parts are the tubes that carry water throughout the plant?

• xylem
• phloem
• roots
• leaves

Which plant parts carry sugars and other nutrients throughout the plant?

• phloem
• xylem
• roots
• leaves

What is the name of the organelle in the leaves of plants that absorbs the Sun's energy?

• roots
• chlorophyll
• chloroplast
• stomata

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Plant absorbs water through the _________. 

• stem
• roots 
• leaves 
• all of the above

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What is the name of the part of the root that allows water and minerals enter?

• root hairs
• epidermis
• phloem
• phyla

What is E pointing to?

• waxy cuticle
• stomata
• upper epidermis
• cuticle

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Organsisms maintain a balance between their cells and the external environment through the process of ----

• growth
• pH
• cellular respiration
• homeostasis

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Which is not a type of tissue in plants?

• Dermal
• Connective
• Vascular
• Ground

Terrestrial plants have stomata on the surface of their leaves. A single stomata is surrounded by two guard cells that change shape in response to environmental factors and open or close the stoma. Which of the following best explains how the structure of the leaf is used in processes that occur in plants?

• Water enters the plant through the surface of the leaf for transpiration
• Gases for photosynthesis are exchanged through the surface of the leaf. 
• Energy for cellular reproduction is absorbed through the surface of the leaf.
• Carbon dioxide enters the plant through the surface of the leaf for cellular reproduction.

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