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What Is a Plant?
On a separate sheet of paper, list the characteristics a pea plant shares with almost all
members of the plant kingdom. Then describe some special adaptations that a pea plant
has in order to survive on land.
89C
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What Is a Plant?
Understanding Main Ideas
Answer the following questions in the spaces provided.
1. What characteristics do all plants share? (List 2)
Some characteristics that all plants share are
2. What do plants need to live successfully on land?
To live successfully on land, all plants need
Building Vocabulary
Fill in the blank to complete each statement.
3. A group of similar cells that perform a specific function is called a(n)
.
4. The internal transporting system through which water, minerals, and food move
inside the plant is called
.
5. A(n)
is a structure inside a plant’s cell in which food is made.
6. The process by which plants make food is called
7. A(n)
stems of most plants.
.
is a waxy, waterproof layer that covers the leaves and
8. The sac inside a plant cell where water, wastes, and food are stored is called
a(n)
.
9. The green pigment called
process in plants.
is necessary to the food-making
89D
Word Bank
photosynthesis
cuticle
tissue
chlorophyll
vascular tissue
chloroplast
vacuole