10B Plant Systems

The special pipe-llike system that allows water and food to get delivered to all parts of the plant.

• Roots and leaves

• Xylem and Phloem

• Up and down tubes

• Root delivery system

The parts of the plants above the ground--the stem or trunk, leaves, and branches--absorb the sunlight during a process called

• Absorption

• Collecting

• Photosynthesis

• Gleaning

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What carries water upward through a tree or plant?

• Xylem

• Phloem

• Veins

• Arteries

Xylem flows

• Upward and downward

• Only upward

• Only downward

• Sideways through the leaves

____ is tissue where substances can flow up and down to carry the food throughout the plant.

• Xylem

• Petiole

• Stamen

• Phloem

What are the xylem and the phloem of a plant are examples of?

• organs

• tissues

• cells

• molecules

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Pores under leaves

that allow for transpiration

and gas exchange

• Xylem

• Stomata

• Phloem

• Transpiration

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• Transpiration
• Absorption
• Transport
• Vascular tissue

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Xylem and Phloem are both __.

• Transpiration
• Absorption
• Photosynthesis
• Vascular tissue

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___ opens and closes the stomata.

• Guard cells
• Xylem
• Roots
• Phloem