Chapter 5: Plants

What is the thin outer layer of cells in a plant?

• stomata
• cuticle
• xylem
• epidermis

What is the small hole through which water and gases pass in and out of the plant?

• stoma

• roots
• veins
• pores

What are the structures that work together to open and close a leaf's stoma?

• Phloem tubes
• Chloroplasts
• Xylem vessels
• Guard cells

What is the vascular tissue that carries sugars made in the leaves throughout the plant?

• xylem
• cortex
• epidermis
• phloem

What is the vascular tissue that moves water and minerals from roots to other parts of the plants.

• epidermis
• cortex
• xylem
• phloem

When the stomata open, water passes __________ the leaf

• into the leaf
• around the leaf
• through the leaf
• out of

A plant takes in water and minerals through its ______.

• stems
• leaves
• roots
• flowers

The process of making glucose is called?

• Respiration
• Fermentation
• Glycolysis
• Photosynthesis

What is the process of cells breaking down glucose?

• Fermentation
• Photosynthesis
• Cellular respiration
• Glycolysis

True or False.

Plants produce carbon dioxide and water in the process of photosynthesis.

• False
• True

• Maybe