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Plants topics 1 & 2

Total questions: 21

Worksheet time: 11mins

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Class
Date
1.

Wheat, rice, maize, potatoes, barley, cassava, and sorghum are...

a)

Crops

b)

75% of the world's food supply

c)

74% of the world's food supply

d)

7 major crops

e)

80% of the world's food supply

2.

How are plants used in the environment?

a)

Oxygen, food, shelter, water filtration, prevents soil erosion, medicines, transportation, construction and fuel.

b)

Carbon dioxide, food, shelter, water filtration, prevents soil erosion, medicines, transportation, construction and fuel.

c)

Oxygen, food, shelter, water filtration, prevents soil erosion, medicines, transportation, construction and water.

d)

Oxygen, water, shelter, food, prevent soil erosion, medicines, transportation, construction and paper products.

3.

What is an advantage of cotton?

a)

It dries very quickly.

b)

It can be harvested in one year, uses less land than trees, paper can be recycled more times & is more accessible, and is not eaten by most insects.

c)

2-3 times as strong as any other material.

d)

It keeps you very warm.

4.

(a)   is 2-3 times as strong as cotton.

5.

What plant can be harvested in one year?

a)

Cotton

b)

Hemp

c)

Flax

d)

Polyester

6.

Where does aspirin come from? And what is it used for?

a)

White willow bark

Pain killer

b)

Found in the poppy

Pain killer

c)

Opiums poppy's seed pod

Strong pain killer

d)

Comes from the cinchona tree

used to prevent malaria

7.

What does codiene from? and what is it used for?

a)

Found in the poppy

It's a pain killer

b)

Opium poppy's seed pod

STRONG pain killer

c)

Comes from the cinchona tree

used to prevent malaria

d)

White willow bark

mild pain killer

8.

Where does morphine come from? And what is it used for?

a)

Opiums poppy's seed pod

STRONG pain killer

b)

White willow bark

Mild pain killer

c)

Found in the poppy

It's a pain killer

d)

Comes from the chinchona tree

used to prevent malaria

9.

True or False?

4 fuels that directly or indirectly came from plants include wood, coal, natural gas, oil.

a)

True

b)

False

10.

What is respiration?

a)

When plants take in oxygen and relase carbon dioxide (breathing)

b)

The loss of water from the leaves of a plant through evaporation

c)

Openings in leafs where gases are exchanged.

d)

The process where plants use sunlight to synthesize food and often produces oxygen as a result.

11.

What is the formula for photosynthesis?

a)

Carbon dioxide + water + nutrients --> Sugar + oxygen.

b)

Carbon dioxide + water --> glucose + water

c)

Carbon dioxide + nutrients --> sugar + nutrients

d)

Oxygen + nutrients --> sugar + carbon dioxide.

12.

The stomata...

a)

Are opening in leaves where gases are exchanged.

b)

Cells that guard where the plant exchanges air.

c)

When plants take in oxygen and release carbon dioxide.

d)

The loss of water from the leaves of a plant through evaporation.

13.

What are the functions of plant stems?

a)

Transports water and nutrients, and provides support for the plant, food storage.

b)

Transports water and nutrients between the leaves & the roots.

c)

Provides support for the plant.

d)

Provides food storage.

14.

What part of a tree stem transports water and nutrients?

a)

Heartwood

b)

Xylem

c)

Cambium/inner bark

d)

Bark

15.

What type of stem is an underground bulb modification of a stem that allows delicate plants to produce energy & store it?

a)

Corm(s)

b)

Rhizomes

c)

Runners

d)

Phloem

16.

What underground stem stores nutrients?

a)

Rhizomes

b)

Corms

c)

Runners

d)

Tree stems

17.

How a strawberry reproduces and comes back every year is an example of a...

a)

Runner

b)

Rhizome

c)

Corm

d)

Re-producer

18.

Taproots....

a)

Go very deep into the soil and are very long and thick.

b)

have thin various branching roots.

c)

Are cylindrical extensions of roots

d)

Is a crop growing from enlarged roots.

19.

True or False?

Fibrous roots are thin and branch out in all different directions.

a)

True

b)

False

20.

Roots....

a)

Absorb water and minerals, support and anchor the plant, store food for the plant.

b)

Only absorb water and anchor the plant.

c)

Only store food for the plant.

d)

Are what keeps the plant alive.

21.

How does water move into the roots?

a)

Osmosis with root hairs

b)

Diffusion

c)

Respiration

d)

Photosynthesis