Responses in plants

Match each word with its description.

• Plants' response to a light stimulus

• Thigmotropism

• Plants' response to gravity

• Phototropism

• Plants' response to moisture

• Gravitropism

• Plants' response to a touch stimulus

• Hydrotropism

The plant response to a gravity stimulus is called

• hydrotropism

• geotropism

• thigmotropism

• phototropism

The plant response to a moisture stimulus is called

• hydrotropism

• geotropism

• thigmotropism

• phototropism

The plant response to a light stimulus is called

• hydrotropism

• geotropism

• thigmotropism

• phototropism

The plant response to a touch stimulus is called

• hydrotropism

• geotropism

• thigmotropism

• phototropism

Sunflowers following the light is an example of __________________

The movement of roots towards the soil is an example of positive __________________.

Shoot grows away from water is an example for negative __________________.

The coiling movement of tendrils in the direction of an object that it touches is an example for positive __________________.

The movement of plant stem away from the soil in the upward direction is an example of negative __________________.