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Plants and Their Parts - Chapter 1 Study Guide



True/False
Indicate whether the sentence or statement is true or false.
 

 1. 

Celery is not a plant root.
 

 2. 

Photosynthesis stores energy; respiration releases energy.
 

 3. 

Cells in every protist have a nucleus.
 

 4. 

The food-making process that uses sunlight is called photosynthesis.     
 

 5. 

Plants do NOT need humans to live and grow.
 

 6. 

Almost 99% of water that enters a plant’s roots is given off by transpiration.
 

Short Answer
 

 7. 

The green chemical in plant cells is called ____________________________.
 

 8. 

Water absorption is not a function of ________________________.
 

 9. 

A single-celled organism without a nucleus is called a _________________________________.
 

 10. 

Mosses and liverworts are examples of _________________________ ________________.
 

 11. 

Sunlight, water, minerals, and carbon dioxide are used by plants to make food. Plant cells do this in parts called ______________________________.
 

 12. 

If you touch the leaves of a plant or tree, you are touching its ______________________________.
 

 13. 

Plants that have tissue through which water and food move are ____________________ _________________.
 

 14. 

The layer of tough cells that protects the tip of a young root is called a(n) _______________ __________.
 

 15. 

The two largest groups in the plant kingdom are _________________________ ________________ and _________________________ __________________.
 

 16. 

An organism that absorbs food from decaying organisms is a __________________________.
 

 17. 

A root’s food is stored in the ________________________.
 

 18. 

Water and minerals flow up a plant through the ___________________________.
 

 19. 

Food flows down from the leaves of a plant through the ___________________________.
 

 20. 

The part of the root that separates the phloem from the xylem is the ___________________________.
 

Other
 

 21. 

Word Bank: chlorophyll, bacterium, chloroplasts, vascular plants, root cap, vacular plants, nonvascular plants, epidermis, nonvascular plants, stems, fungus, cortex, phloem, cambium, xylem
 



 
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