Chapter 6: Plant Quiz Prep

When plants are classified by how they transport water, scientists group them as _______.

• monocots or dicots

• seedless or seed-bearing

• vascular or nonvascular

• angiosperms or gymnosperms

Which plant is NOT a vascular plant?

• liverwort

• club moss

• horsetail

• ginkgo

Mosses and liverworts have small, rootlike structures called _____.

• rhizomes

• rhizoids

• hyphae

• ginkgo

Ferns and horsetails grow from underground stems called _____.

• rhizoids

• hyphae

• tubers

• rhizomes

Mrs. Abbot enjoys having different flowers in her yard each year. She should choose _____ flowers, plants that live for only one growing season.

• annual

• perennial

• biennial

• centennial

The first root that emerges from seeds is called a(n) _____.

• aerial root

• taproot

• fibrous root

• primary root

A leafy branch of a fern is called ____.

• liverwort

• fern

• horsetail

• tuber

The tiny seed leaves of the embryo

• seed

• baby

• cotyledon

• primary root

The sticky substance that protects a pine tree from diseases and insects when a branch is broken is called ____.

• resin

• maple syrup

• gum

• paste

Tubes that carry sugars and food throughout the plant

• xylem

• cambrium

• phloem

• roots