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Plants Unit Test-Name:Hr.

Choose the correct answer.

1- Circle the correct answer regarding the characteristics shared by all plants.

  1. Plants make their own food and with exception of a few are all producers.
  2. Plant cells have a cell wall.
  3. All plants have a cuticle on their outside surface.
  4. Plants have a two part life cycle.
  5. All of the above.
  6. A, B, and C.

2- Using dichotomous key plants are divided to the following groups.

  1. Tress and bushes, and grasses.
  2. Deciduous tress, conifers and ferns.
  3. Vascular and non vascular plants.
  4. Land plants and water plants

3-Sexual production in plants requires which of the following.

a. Buds

  1. Sperm and egg cells
  2. Spores
  3. Only the sperms

4- Plants and the green algae share which of the following characteristics.

a. Two part life cycle

b. Surplus food stored in the form of starch

c. Similar form of chlorophyll

d. All of the above

5- You planted a Lima been a week ago, now you can see the root and the stem shoot. What will happen if you took the seedling and turned it upside down?

  1. The root will start growing leaves.
  2. The stem will fall off.
  3. The root will turn and grow down, while the stem will turn up and keep growing.
  4. The plant will die.

5- The process by which the plants change the sun energy to food is called

  1. Pollination
  2. Fertilization
  3. Binary fission
  4. Photosynthesis

True or false: Write “T” if the statement is true and “F” if the statement is false.

6-_____ Some non vascular plants produce seeds when stressed.

7-_____ Vascular plants do not have any tissue for transfer of water or food.

8-_____ Xylem transports minerals and water from roots to the leaves.

9-_____ Stems help support the plants, transport and store material such as food and water.

10- _____ Roots are the food making factories of the plants.

11-_____ There are two guard cells per stoma, and their job is to open and close the stoma.

12-_____ Stamen is the female parts of the flower.

13-_____ Fossilized ferns over time are used as coal.

14- _____ Photosynthesis requires oxygen and water.

15-_____ The end product of photosynthesis is proteins which are the building block of all organisms.

16-_____ Humans can survive without plants.

Short Answers:

Name 5 plant products you use on a daily basis.

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Define pollination and fertilization

Write the outline of photosynthesis (include the required materials and end products and where it takes place).

Concept Map: Using the student work sheets prepare a concept map organizing the big ideas of the plant unit.

Extra Credit: Answer as many of these as you can by the end of school day today! Yes that means during SAT time too!

There are plant visual aids (posters)placed all over the classroom, 10 of which have been numbered. Answer the following questions by making observations at each center. You can extra points by writing big ideas (take home messages) from the plant posters without numbers.

1. What do plants need?

2. What are the 4 major parts of a plant and their function?

3. What are two kinds of tress and how are they different?

4. On a pine cone what is a scale and what does it do? - Draw and label a scale.

5. Aside from planting a seed what are three ways to grow new plants?

6. Define and give one example each for rhizome, bulb and a tuber.

7. Name 5 ways that seeds or seed pods can move around.

8. What is pollen, who makes it and how does it travel?

9. What are the three parts of a seed and what is the function of each part?

10. What is the function of a fruit and how does it develop?

11. Draw and label parts of a flower.