TCI Lesson 4: How Plants Respond to Their Environment

A force that pulls objects down.

• air

• the earth

• gravity

• pressure

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Anything in the environment that makes an organism act in a certain way.

• the sun

• stimulus

• gravity

• air

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What an organism does when it senses a stimulus in the environment.

• stimulus

• gravity

• grow

• response

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True or False: Roots will grow in the same direction that gravity pulls objects down.

• True

• False

True or False: Water is a stimulus that roots will grow towards.

• True

• False

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A stem growing upwards out of the soil, is the same response that roots have towards gravity.

• True

• False

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Many plants grow vines that cling to the bark of trees in order to:

• create a stimulus

• reach the light

• use the tree for food

• get more rain

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When a plant is in a sunny window, the leaves will turn toward the light. The leaves turning toward the light is called:

• A response

• A stimulus

• intelligent

• photosynthesis

When a plant is in a sunny window, the leaves will turn toward the light. The light is what for the plant?

• a tendril

• photosynthesis

• a response

• a stimulus

Vines cannot see but can feel a tree and grow around it. True or false?

• true

• false