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WorksheetsB7. Transport in Plants
Total questions: 11
Worksheet time: 5mins
Which graph shows most clearly what will happen to the rate of transpiration in a plant as humidity increases?
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The lower end of a plant stem is placed in water coloured with red dye. After three hours, the stem is cut as shown in the diagram. Which labelled region is stained red?
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The diagram shows a potted plant and the same plant 24 hours later. What causes the change in the appearance of the plant?
Water loss is greater than water uptake.
Water moves from the leaves to the stem.
Water uptake is equal to water loss.
Water uptake is greater than water loss.
In which order does water pass through the cells of a plant as the water travels from the roots to a leaf?
mesophyll cells → root hair → root cortex → xylem
root cortex → root hair → xylem → mesophyll cells
root hair → mesophyll cells → root cortex → xylem
root hair → root cortex → xylem → mesophyll cells
A celery stalk is placed in a beaker of blue dye. Once the dye reaches the leaves, the stalk is taken out and cut in half. Which diagram shows the appearance of the cut end of the stalk?
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Select the letter which corresponds to your answer.
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Select all the functions of the stomata.
Allows for the movement of gas and oxygen in and out of the leaf.
To store sucrose and glucose for energy storage.
Enables water to be pulled up the plant.
Allows sunlight to enter in and out of the leaf for photosynthesis.
Some ecologists inserted probes into the water-conducting tissue in trees. Name the water-conducting tissue into which the two probes were inserted.
xylem
phloem
stomata
vascular bundle
Name the carbohydrate that is transported in the phloem.
starch
glucose
sucrose
fructose
State one substance, other than sucrose, that is produced in leaves and translocated to other parts of the plant.
amino acids
glucose
oxygen
carbon dioxide
State the name of the process being depicted in the diagram above.
transpiration
translocation
diffusion
osmosis
