How Much Do You Know About Plants Survival?
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This quiz has been created to test your knowledge on the topic plants survival. In order to live and grow, plants need air, water, nutrients, and sunlight. There is a list of questions related to the process of growth. So, let's try out the quiz. All the best!
- 1.Roots help plants survive in three main ways. Which way below is NOT one of these main ways?
- A.
Roots hold or anchor the plant in the soil.
- B.
Roots draw up water and minerals from the soil.
- C.
Roots draw up food for the plant.
- D.
Some roots store food for the plant
- 2.A layer of tough cells that protect the growing tip of the root is called the _________________________.
- A.
Skin
- B.
Shield
- C.
Cortex
- D.
Root cap
- 3.A large thick root with a few hairy branching roots is (an)_________________.
- A.
Fibrous root
- B.
Taproot
- C.
Phloem
- D.
Simple
- 4.Water and minerals pass through the root's ________________ and move upward in the _______________________ to all the parts of the plant, while food flows downward in the _______________________. Choose the words below that appear in the correct order to fit into the blanks to make this statement true and accurate.
- A.
Xylem, cortex, phloem,
- B.
Phloem, xylem, cortex
- C.
Cambium, cortex, phloem
- D.
Cortex, xylem, phloem
- 5.The food-making process in plants is called _______________________.
- A.
Photosynthesis
- B.
Respiration
- C.
Transpiration
- D.
None of the above
- 6.Plants respond to their ___________________ in many ways.
- A.
Parts
- B.
Nutrients
- C.
Environments
- D.
None of the above
- 7.This is something in the environment that causes a living thing to respond
- A.
Animal
- B.
Stimulus
- C.
Adaptation
- D.
None of the above
- 8.What happens when a plant reacts to a stimulus?
- A.
it changes its direction of growth
- B.
It grows stronger
- C.
It grows weaker
- D.
It stops growing
- 9.What causes plant roots to grow downward?
- A.
Nutrients in the soil
- B.
Weeds
- C.
gravity
- D.
Other plants in the area
- 10.True or False? The response of a plant to a stimulus is called tropism
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 11.This is a trait that helps a plant survive in its environment
- A.
Stimulus
- B.
Light
- C.
adaptation
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