Plants
Practice Test
1.
What is the process by which plants use light energy to produce food?
a.
adaptation
b.
fertilization
c.
reproduction
d.
photosynthesis
Hint
2.
______are plants that have tubelike cells in their roots, stems, and leaves.
a.
Vascular plants
b.
Mushrooms
c.
Nonvascular plants
d.
Lichens
Hint
3.
What do we call a vascular plant that produces seeds in cones?
a.
moss
b.
flowering plant
c.
lichen
d.
conifer
Hint
4.
What is the female reproductive cell called?
a.
sperm
b.
spore
c.
seed
d.
egg
Hint
5.
What do scientists call the joining of a sperm and egg?
a.
diffusion
b.
osmosis
c.
budding
d.
fertilization
Hint
6.
There are two kinds of seed plants: conifers and _____.
a.
fungi
b.
flowering plants
c.
nonvascular plants
d.
mosses
Hint
7.
What structures do mosses use to take up water by osmosis?
a.
leaves
b.
hairlike structures
c.
cones
d.
roots
Hint
8.
A _____ is a vascular plant that reproduces with spores.
a.
fern
b.
mushroom
c.
moss
d.
liverwort
Hint
9.
What do we call the process of forming a new organism by the union of two reproductive cells?
a.
budding
b.
asexual reproduction
c.
fission
d.
sexual reproduction
Hint
10.
What is the pigment that causes most plants to appear green?
a.
green algae
b.
mold
c.
cytoplasm
d.
chlorophyll
Hint
