Plants and Animals

____________________ are cold-blooded vertebrates with soft, moist skin. Their young hatch from eggs and pass through several life stages before they become adults. They change more than any other vertebrate through a process known as metamorphosis.

• birds

• mammals

• reptiles

• amphibians

______________ are warm-blooded vertebrates with lungs and feathers.  They lay hard-shelled eggs.  When their babies hatch, they must be fed by parents.

• birds

• mammals

• reptiles

• fish

__________________ are vertebrates that breathe air using lungs, have hair or fur, and nurse young that resemble parents at birth.

• birds

• mammals

• reptiles

• fish

Recall that the movement of food in the phloem is called.

• Translocation

• Transpiration stream

• Evaporation

• Respiration

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Which of the following indicates the pathway of water through a plant?

• root hair cell --> xylem --> stomata

• stomata --> root hair cell --> xylem

• xylem --> stomata --> root hair cell

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

• Chlorophyll

• Phloem

• Stomata

• Xylem

Transpiration is

• the movement of water through a plant from the roots up the stem

• the loss of water from the leaves of a plant by the process of evaporation

• the flow of water into plant roots by osmosis from the soil

• the process of minerals and sugars moving through plant veins

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Which of these is true?

• Xylem vessels carry water and dissolved minerals up the plant

• Phloem tissue carry water and dissolved minerals up the plant

• Xylem vessels carry dissolved sucrose up and down the plant

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The structure observed in the picture is called:

• cell

• spore

• tubelike

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Plants with tubelike structures are called

• vascular plants

• nonvascular plants

• no spored plants