Chapter 3 Questions
True/False
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
Figure 9-1
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1. Plant A in Figure 9-1 is a monocot.
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2. Plant B in Figure 9-1 is a monocot.
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3. Plant C in Figure 9-1 is a nonvascular plant.
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4. Plant D in Figure 9-1 is a dicot.
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5. Plant E in Figure 9-1 is a monocot.
Multiple Choice
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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6. Of the following, which is NOT a vascular plant?
a. moss
c. fern
b. pine tree
d. horsetail
7. Ancient seedless plants compacted and eventually turned into the ____ we use today.
a. coal
c. minerals
b. oil
d. rubber
8. Of following, which is NOT an adaptation plants made to life on land?
a. cell walls
c. more complex reproduction
b. a cuticle
d. cell membrane
9. Of the following, which is NOT a characteristics of plants?
a. have cell walls
c. range in height
b. have roots
d. live only on land
10. Scientists think that plants evolved directly from ____.
a. animals
c. bacteria
b. mosses
d. green algae
11. Nonvascular plants include ____.
a. ferns and horsetails
c. liverworts and ferns
b. horsetails and mosses
d. mosses and liverworts
12. Nonvascular plants have all of the following EXCEPT ____.
a. flowers
c. spores
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b. rhizoids
d. cell walls
Moss plants are held in place by threadlike structures called ____.
a. dicots
c. guard cells
b. rhizoids
d. vascular tissue
The first plants to grow in new environments are usually ____.
a. ferns and horsetails
c. liverworts and mosses
b. grasses
d. mosses and ferns
Ferns are the most abundant of the ____ plants.
a. gymnosperm
c. nonvascular
b. seedless vascular
d. vascular
____ have unique, jointed stem structures.
a. Club mosses
c. Horsetails
b. Ferns
d. Spike mosses
Peat is actually the earliest stage of ____.
a. coal
c. petroleum
b. natural gas
d. petrified wood
The oldest trees alive are the ____.
a. angiosperms
c. monocots
b. gymnosperms
d. dicots
____ is a chemical compound that forms tangled fibers in the cell walls of plants.
a. Stomata
c. Cellulose
b. Cambium
d. Cuticle
Of the following, which is NOT an example of a seed plant?
a. peanuts
c. oranges
b. peat moss
d. wheat
The most common type of plants on Earth is ____.
a. angiosperms
c. nonvascular plants
b. gymnosperms
d. seedless vascular plants
Roots have all of the following functions EXCEPT to ____.
a. anchor the plant
c. store food
b. absorb water
d. make food
Stems have all of these functions EXCEPT ____.
a. storing food and water
b. absorbing soil nutrients
c. supporting the plant
d. moving materials between leaves and roots
The major function of leaves is to ____.
a. make food
c. transport
b. store food
d. absorb nutrients
Of the following, which is NOT a gymnosperm?
a. gingoes
c. flowering plants
b. cycads
d. conifers
Yes/No
Indicate whether you agree with the statement.
Indicate which of the following are characteristics of seed plants by writing Y for yes and N for no.
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____ 27. leaves with stomata
____ 28. stems of various sizes
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____ 30. produce seeds
____ 31. vascular tissue of phloem and xylem
____ 32. produce rhizoids
Matching
Match each term with the correct definition below.
a. rhizoids
e. moss
b. liverworts
f. cuticle
c. pioneer species
g. bogs
d. cellulose
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rootlike filaments made up of a few long cells
are first to grow in new or disturbed areas
means "herb for the liver"
a waxy, protective layer on leaves of plants
an organic compound found in plant cell walls
a seedless, rootless plant with leaflike growths
poorly drained areas with spongy, wet ground that is comprised mainly of dead and decaying plants
Match each term with the correct definition below.
a. vascular plants
e.
b. stomata
f.
c. phloem
g.
d. spongy layer
h.
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palisade layer
xylem
guard cells
cambium
small pores on leaf surfaces allowing carbon dioxide in
vessels that move food from leaves to other plant parts
tissue that produces new xylem and phloem cells
vessels that transport substances from the roots to other parts of the plant
open and close stomata
loosely arranged cell layer in the leaf
closely packed cells under the epidermis of leaves
plants that have tubelike structures for transporting substances
Completion
Complete each statement.
48. Mosses and liverworts that are among the first plants to inhabit a new environment are called
____________________ species.
49. Plants with vessels to transport water and nutrients are called ____________________ plants.
50. The primary difference between seedless vascular and nonvascular plants is that seedless vascular plants have
____________________ tissue.
51. All plants are many-celled, and most contain green pigment called ____________________.
Seedless Vascular Plants
Types
Nonvascular Plants
Characteristics
Types
Characteristics
A
C
mosses
H
club mosses
roots
F
stalks that look like stems
B
D
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leaflike green growths
E
I
Table 9-1
52. In Table 9-1, ____________________ are the missing data represented by A and B.
53. In Table 9-1, ______________________________ are the missing data represented by C, D, and E.
54. In Table 9-1, _________________________ are the missing data represented by F and G.
55. In Table 9-1, ______________________________ are the missing data represented by H and I.