Diversity Of Living Things - Chapter 3
Diversity of Living Things – perhaps better phrased as the biological diversity of living organisms – is the identification, nomenclature and classification of a wide range of organisms present on a particular region. What do you know about it?
- 1.Plant species on Earth have
- A.
The same shape and grow in the same environment
- B.
Many different shapes and grow in any environment
- C.
Two different shapes and grow in any environment
- D.
The same shapes ad same colors
- 2.Plants change the ______________ into food energy
- A.
Atmosphere's energy
- B.
Moon's energy
- C.
Sun's energy
- D.
Ocean's energy
- 3.Each plant cell is surrounded by a
- A.
Layer of skin
- B.
Nuclei
- C.
Ribbon
- D.
Cell wall
- 4.Xylem and phloem are tissues in the ___________ that transport materials throughout the plant
- A.
Vascular system
- B.
Respiratory system
- C.
Circulatory system
- D.
Digestive system
- 5.Carbon dioxide and oxygen move through tiny openings at the bottom of the leaf, called
- A.
Stomata
- B.
Cuticles
- C.
Eyes
- D.
Doors
- 6.The movement of water vapor out of a plant and into the air is a process called ________________
- A.
Evaporation
- B.
Cellular respiration
- C.
Transpiration
- D.
Photosynthesis
- 7.The organ that makes food for the plant is the _____________________
- A.
Leaf
- B.
Stem
- C.
Roots
- D.
Branch
- 8.Living plants are _______________
- A.
Sometimes growing
- B.
Always growing
- C.
Not alive
- D.
Decomposers
- 9.For the first plants, life on land offered the advantage
- A.
A stronger force of gravity
- B.
A drier outside environment
- C.
Less access to sunlight
- D.
Greater access to carbon dioxide
- 10.Mosses and ferns live mostly in environments that are
- A.
Moist
- B.
Hilly
- C.
Windy
- D.
Cold
- 11.Mosses are non-vascular plants, which means that
- A.
Their cells do not have cell walls
- B.
Water and nutrients move through them cell by cell
- C.
They don't have chloroplasts for photosynthesis
- D.
They can reproduce sexually but not asexually
- 12.Structures made by fertilized fern eggs produce and release
- A.
Fronds
- B.
Sperm
- C.
Spores
- D.
Mosses
- 13.A fertilized moss egg grows into a
- A.
Green leafy frond
- B.
Frond with a capsule on the end
- C.
Stalk with a capsule on the end
- D.
Vascular plant
- 14.A seed and a spore are similar in that seeds and spores both
- A.
Contain a food supply for the young plant
- B.
Have a protective outer coating
- C.
Contain an embryo inside
- D.
Have pollen tubes
- 15.Germination is part of the reproduction process of all
- A.
Living plants
- B.
Living things with nuclei
- C.
Living mosses
- D.
Living things with seeds
- 16.Which is an advantage of reproduction with seeds?
- A.
Seeds can travel far from the parent plant
- B.
A seed contains an embryo that lives only a short time
- C.
Seeds don't store food, so they don't waste energy
- D.
Seeds are spread only under ideal conditions
- 17.In a year when apple tree doesn't have many flowers,
- A.
Its apples aren't as sweet
- B.
Its apples have fewer seeds
- C.
It bears fewer apples
- D.
Every flower has several apples
- 18.Bees are important to angiosperm reproduction because when they collect nectar, they also _________
- A.
Transport pistils from flower to flower
- B.
Transport pollen from flower to flower
- C.
Transport seeds from flower to flower
- D.
Transport nutrients from flower to flower
- 19.A pumpkin __________ consists of a young pumpkin plant surrounded by a nutrient-rich coating
- A.
Embryo
- B.
Seed
- C.
Carving
- D.
Kernel
- 20.Inside a tulip seed is an immature tulip plant called a(n) _______________
- A.
Embryo
- B.
Seed
- C.
Pollen
- D.
Flower
- 21.When conditions are favorable, a seed will start to grow in a process called
- A.
Meiosis
- B.
Pollination
- C.
Germination
- D.
Cone
- 22.The structure that holds a sperm cell is a small multicellular structure called a(n) _______________
- A.
Cone
- B.
Embryo
- C.
Seed
- D.
Pollen
- 23._____________ occurs when pollen reaches the part of a plant that protects the egg and releases the sperm
- A.
Pollination
- B.
Germination
- C.
Gymnosperm
- D.
Seed
- 24.Inside a pine cone, the process of ___________ produces both male and female spore cells
- A.
Angiosperm
- B.
Pollination
- C.
Meiosis
- D.
Pollen
- 25.A plant with seeds that are not encased in fruit or flowers is a(n) ______________
- A.
Gymnosperm
- B.
Angioserm
- C.
Seed
- D.
Embryo
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