Biology STAAR Review #3

Which plant parts are the tubes that carry water throughout the plant?

• xylem
• phloem
• roots
• leaves

Which plant parts carry sugars and other nutrients throughout the plant?

• phloem
• xylem
• roots
• leaves

Vascular tissue that transports water and minerals UPWARDS from a plant's roots is know as ______.

• Chlorophyll
• Phloem
• Stomata
• Xylem

The plant tissue that carries food materials DOWNWARD from the leaves to the rest of the pant is the ______.

• Phloem
• Stomata
• Chlorophyll
• Xylem

Barnacles create home sites by attaching themselves to whales. This relationship neither harms nor benefits the whales. 

• parasitism
• commensalism
• mutualism

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Mistletoe extracts water and nutrients from a spruce tree. The spruce tree is harmed. 

• parasitism
• commensalism
• mutualism

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Two male Giraffes are fighting over the last green leaf of a tree that is dying.  

• Competition
• Mutualsim
• Predation
• Commensalism

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1.  A bee and a flower work together to benefit each other. This is an example of _________________. The bee helps the flower by pollinating it and the flower helps the bee by providing it with nectar. 

• commensal relationship 
• parasitic relationship 
• mutual relationship 

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Inherited trait that helps an organism survive is a(n) __________.

• Fossil
• Adaptation
• Ancestor
• Natural selection

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Structures with the same parts have different functions; suggests that organisms share a common ancestry

• vestigial structures
• homologous structures
• adaptive radiation
• fossil

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