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Plant Diversity - Chapter 2 Study Guide



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

 1. 

The union of two pollen grains is called fertilization.
 

 2. 

The leaf of a liverwort is called a frond.
 

 3. 

The stage in a fern’s life cycle when it produces spores is called sexual reproduction.
 

 4. 

Plants that produce flowers are called angiosperms.
 

 5. 

An ovary is a structure containing egg cells.
 

 6. 

A cotyledon is a tiny leaflike structure inside a seed of an angiosperm.
 

 7. 

A pine tree is an example of an angiosperm.
 

 8. 

The fibers that anchor mosses and liverworts in one place are called rhizoids.
 

 9. 

The immature plant inside a seed is a seed coat.
 

 10. 

Anything in the environment that produces a response is called a stimulus.
 

 11. 

A seed contains an undeveloped plant and stored food for the young plant.
 

 12. 

A mature ripened ovary of a plant is a fruit.
 

 13. 

An adaptation helps a living thing to survive in its environment.
 

 14. 

An underground stem of a fern is called a rhizome.
 

 15. 

A growth response of a plant toward or away from a stimulus is a tropism.
 

 16. 

Mosses and liverworts have a complex root system.
 

 17. 

One advantage that needles of a conifer tree provide is that they lose less water than wide leaves.
 

 18. 

Auxins, the chemicals inside plants, cause different kinds of tropisms, work on all parts of a plant, and stimulate plant growth.
 

 19. 

The anther is the part of the flower that holds the pollen grains.
 

 20. 

Dicots have parallel leaf veins.
 

Multiple Choice
Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
 

 21. 

You notice a plant leans to one side as it grows. What can you infer about the plant?
a.
It receives more light in the direction that it leans.
c.
It receives more water in the direction that it leans.
b.
It receives less light in the direction that it leans.
d.
It receives less water in the direction that it leans.
 



 
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