Life Science

Chapter 9: Plants

Section 3 Self-Check Quiz-Eng.

1.
Which category do most of the world's identified plant species belong to?
A)seedless nonvascular plants
B)seed plants
C)seedless vascular plants
D)mosses
2.
The __________ covers and protects plant leaves.
A)cellulose
B)rhizoid
C)epidermis
D)resin
3.
Tulips have __________ stems.
A)woody
B)herbaceous
C)stomata
D)cambium
4.
Maple trees have __________ stems.
A)herbaceous
B)carotenoid
C)waxy
D)woody
5.
__________ tissue help water and dissolved substances pass throughout a plant from its roots.
A)Phloem
B)Carotenoid
C)Cuticle
D)Xylem
6.
Which of these is NOT a gymnosperm?
A)a conifer
B)a hornwort
C)a ginkgo
D)a cycad
7.
Seeds develop on the __________ of conifers.
A)female cone
B)male cone
C)phloem tissue
D)cambium tissue
8.
Of all the known plant species, more than half are Anthophyta, which are __________.
A)gymnosperms
B)ferns
C)mosses
D)angiosperms
9.
A plant that completes its life cycle within 12 months is called _________.
A)an annual
B)a biennial
C)a spore
D)an angiosperm
10.
A plant that matures after more than two years is called __________.
A)a biennial
B)a moss
C)a perennial
D)a fossil
11.
The paper you use to write a letter most likely came from which type of plant?
A)horsetails
B)conifers
C)peat
D)ferns
12.
Which of these is a seedless vascular plant?
A)a moss
B)a horsetail
C)a liverwort
D)a pine
13.
What kinds of plants have structures that move water and other substances through them?
A)nonvascular
B)protist
C)vascular
D)bacterial
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