Unit 3 Vocabulary Plants

The loss of water in plants; occurs as the stomata opens

• Photosynthesis
• Cellular Respiration
• Transpiration
• Pollination

Tubes that carry sap to living cells in the plant

• phloem

• chlorophyll

• carbon dioxide

What is the force inside the central vacuole called?

• The Force

• Turgor Pressure

• Water Pressure

• Thigmotropism

Plants following the sun exhibit (show)

• Phototropism

• Geotropism

• Hydrotropism

• Thigmotropism

The roots of plants exhibit which behavior?

• Hydrotropism

• Geotropism

• Phototropism

• Autotropism

What stimulus is the seedling responding to that causes the roots and stem to grow in opposite directions?

• Temperature

• Light

• Gravity

• Water

Why do plants wilt?

• Response to gravity

• Negative homeostasis

• Excessive humidity

• Lack of turgor pressure

Which of the following lists the levels of organization from the simplest to most complex?

• Cells, tissues, organs, organ systems, organisms

• Organisms, organ systems, organs, tissues, cells

• Tissues, cells, organs, organisms, organ systems

• Organs, organ systems, organisms, cells, tissues

A stimulus is______________________?

• a change in a organisms surrondings

• process in which organism grow larger

• the result of sexual reproduction

• a reaction in change of surrondings

Plant's roots grow down, anchoring it into the ground. To what stimulus is the plant responding?

• thigmotropism

• phototropism

• hydropism

• gravitropism