Plant Traits Quiz

Features that make an organism unique are called _____.

• offspring

• special

• traits

• freckles

The passing on of traits from parents to young is _____.

• characteristic

• heredity

• offspring

• germination

A tomato seed will grow into a ____________.

• bean plant

• tomato plant

• sunflower plant

• corn plant

When a seed grows into a plant it most likely will _________.

• look nothing like its parent

• look similar to its parent

• look similar to a rose

• look nothing like a rose

Fill in the blanks using the available answer choices. Inherited traits come from .

• one parent

• both parents

Marisol wants to show that plants need sunlight in order to grow. She plants one plant in a terrarium with soil. Then she puts the terrarium in a sunny room. Marisol makes a second terrarium for the next part of her experiment. What should she do differently with the second terrarium?

• She should put it in a dark room.

• She should use another kind of soil.

• She should place it under a bright light.

A flower's red petals are an example of a(n) trait.

• learned

• inherited

• environmental

• acquired

What is one way that pine trees might be different from each other?

• They don't look like their parents.

• Some have a different life cycle.

• They don't have the same number of pine needles.