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Plant Adaptation Pop Quiz
True or Make it True - Part 1
Indicate whether the sentence or statement is true or false. If false, correct the statement to make it true.
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1. The surface of a vascular plant is covered by a cuticle in order to reduce water loss.
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2. Land plants have a complex life cycle that involves an alternation of generations between a haploid
gametophyte and a diploid sporophyte.
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3. The life cycle of nonvascular plants involves alternation of generations.
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4. Seed plants cannot reproduce without a film of water.
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5. A seed is a structure that contains a plant embryo and a cotyledon.
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6. The development of flowers improved the reproductive efficiency of aquatic plants.
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7. The first flowering plants appeared 360 million years ago.
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8. Many seeds have appendages that aid in dispersal.
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9. Seeds remain dormant until moisture and temperature conditions favor seedling growth.
____ 10. Xylem transports water and mineral nutrients.
____ 11. Pines and most other conifers have needle-like or scale-like leaves.
____ 12. Gymnosperm seeds are enclosed in a cone.
____ 13. Ferns are characterized by fronds and fiddleheads.
____ 14. The four groups of gymnosperms include conifers (Phylum Coniferophyta), cycads (Phylum Cycadophyta),
gnetophytes (Phylum Gnetophyta), and ginkoes (Phylum Ginkgophyta).
____ 15. Angiosperms are the most recently evolved group of plants.
____ 16. Botanically, tomatoes and corn kernels are classified as fruits.
____ 17. Potatoes are a food source rich in carbohydrates.
____ 18. The most valuable nonfood product obtained from plants today is wood.
____ 19. Wood from trees is still a main source of fuel for more than a quarter of the world's population.
____ 20. Plant substances are the foundation of modern medicine.
____ 21. Foxglove is the source of a drug used to treat cardiac disorders.
____ 22. The challenges that faced early land plants included conserving water, reproducing on land, and absorbing
minerals from the rocky surface.
____ 23. The ancestors of today’s land plants were probably protistan brown algae similar to kelp.
____ 24. The cuticle helps reduce the radiation of heat from a plant.
____ 25. Bryophytes developed an internal system of interconnected tubes and vessels called vascular tissues.
____ 26. The diploid form in a plant’s life cycle is called the sporophyte.
____ 27. The haploid form in a plant’s life cycle is called the gametophyte.
____ 28. A haploid stage following a diploid stage in a plant’s life cycle is called alternation of generations.
____ 29. In plants, haploid gametes are produced as a result of mitosis.
____ 30. The seed coat protects the seed from drying out.
____ 31. The flowers produced by angiosperms help ensure the transfer of gametes by attracting a particular bird,
insect, or other animal, which then carries pollen from one flower to another.
____ 32. A flower is a reproductive structure, not a photosynthetic structure.
____ 33. The dominant generation in vascular plants is the sporophyte.
____ 34. The xylem in a plant transports water and minerals, and the phloem transports food from the leaves.
____ 35. Fruits produced by angiosperms perform provide food for humans and other animals, protect the seeds, and
disperse the seeds.
____ 36. Monocots have long, thin leaves with parallel veins.
____ 37. Flowering plants are classified as monocots or dicots according to the number of their cotyledons.
____ 38. The primary purpose of the fruit is thermal protection.
____ 39. Mosses, hornworts, and liverworts all possess spore capsules.
____ 40. Fiddleheads are produced by ferns.
____ 41. All of the following are nonvascular plants: mosses, hornworts, and liverworts.
____ 42. California redwoods are some of the tallest members of the phylum Coniferophyta.
____ 43. Approximately 90 percent of all living plants are angiosperms.
____ 44. Monocots and dicots are subdivisions of gymnosperms.
____ 45. All of the following are derived from angiosperms and used by humans in their daily lives: food, textiles, and
timber.
____ 46. Potatoes are actually tubers.
____ 47. Soybeans are a globally important crop because 45 percent of this legume is protein.
____ 48. More than 70 percent of the world’s cultivated farmland is used for growing grains.
____ 49. The world’s best wheat-growing area is the Great Plains.
____ 50. Corn is one of the world’s chief foods for farm animals.
____ 51. Rayon is made from wood pulp.
____ 52. Salicin derived from the bark of willow trees (Salix spp.) is the starting compound used to make aspirin.
____ 53. Paper-making fibers are obtained from wood, cooton, bamboo, and even rice.
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