Plants Worksheet

Cross out the WRONG answer from either Column A or Column B

Column A Column B

1. Sheds Leaves Conifer Deciduous

2. Branched Veins Monocot Dicot

3. Male Flower Part Pistil Stamen

4. Flowers Gymnosperm Angiosperm

5. Takes Water Up Phloem Xylem

6. Tall Vascular Non-vascular

7. Protected Seeds Gymnosperm Angiosperm

8. Water Transport System Vascular Non-vascular

9. 3 Petals Monocot Dicot

Check the appropriate box—you may check BOTH boxes, if needed Vascular Plants Non-Vascular Plants

10. Cells with cell walls

11. Cells containing chloroplasts

12. All species are seedless

13. True roots and stems

14. All species have rhizoids

15. True leaves

16. Carry out photosynthesis

17. Have chlorophyll in cells

18. All are land plants

19. Multicellular

20. Have water transport tubes

21. Monocots and dicots

22. Water moves from cell to cell by diffusion

23. Angiosperms and gymnosperms

24. Flowering plants

Choose the correct answer25. All plants can be described as having:

a. many cellsb. roots, stems, and leaves

c. vascular tissued. rhizomes

26. plant makes its food bya. diffusionb. fertilization

c. digestiond. photosynthesis

27. Seeds of flowering plants are in a:a. Coneb. Stem

c. Fruitd. root

28. The group of plants with unprotected seeds are called:a. Monocots b. Dicots

c. Angiosperms d. gymnosperms

29. The growth response of a plant toward light is called:a. Germinationb. Embryology

c. Fertilizationd. phototropism

30. All angiosperms:a. produce sporesb. produce flowers

c. lack vascular tissued. have needle-like leaves

31. Trees that lose their leaves seasonally are classified as:a. Angiospermsb. Deciduous

c. Gymnospermsd. conifers

32. Growth of a plant embryo from a seed is called:a. Germinationb. Fertilization

c. Pollinationd. incubation

33. The plant kingdom is divided into two groups based on how they:a. make foodb. transport water and nutrients

c. respond to lightd. reproduce asexually

34. An angiosperm with two seed leaves inside its seed is classified as a:a. Monocotb. Dicot

c. herbaceous plantd. gymnosperm

35. Transporting water and minerals from the soil is the job of:a. xylem tissueb. the epidermis

c. the cuticled. phloem tissue

36. Which of the following would NOT help you distinguish between a monocot and a dicot?a. the number of seed leavesb. the pattern of the veins in a leaf

c. the type of root systemd. the number of flower petals

Color the diagram according to the directions: Stigma = blue Anthers = red Filaments = orange Style = green Ovary = yellow Ovule = purple Petals = pink

37. Which 2 parts make up the stamen?

38. Which 3 parts make up the pistil?

39. Use the Word Banks and Diagram to fill in the Chart Below the Diagram

Word Bank for the “Parts” Stomata vascular tube cuticle epidermis

chloroplasts

Phrases for the “Functions”: transport nutrients and water waterproof allows gases to enter and leave

collects sunlight makes the leaf rigid

Letter Part Function

A

B

C

D

E

40. What color are chloroplasts?

Match the Plant to its Biome (pages 393-395 might help)

_____41. Cactus

_____42. Coniferous Trees

_____43. Deciduous Trees

_____44. Grass

_____45. Lichen

_____46. Palm Tree

A. Desert

B. Grasslands

C. Taiga

D. Temperate Forest

E. Tropical Rain Forest

F. Tundra

Check the Appropriate Boxes—you may check both boxes, if appropriate

Item The Plants Makes This The Plant Needs and Uses This

47. Sunlight

48. Carbon Dioxide

49. Oxygen

50. Sugar

51. Water

52. How old was the tree to the right?

53. How old was the tree when the wound occurred?

54. Why do you think some rings are further apart than others?

Humans and Plants (pages 534-536, 547 and 597)

55. What are the vegetative parts of a plant?

56. What types of plant parts can we eat (not necessarily

from the same plant, though)?

57. What is your favorite food from plants?

58. What type of plant is the most important source of food?

59. What is the most widely cultivated crop in the United States?

60. What two vitamins does a vegetarian diet have trouble providing?

61. List three other uses, besides food, that we have for plants.

62. What insect is kept by people, not only for the food it produces, but also because it is one of the

most essential pollinators for plants?

63. On a bag of fertilizer, you might see this series of numbers: 5-10-5. What do those numbers mean?

64. What are nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium used for in a plant?