Plants
Practice Test
1.
What are the roundish brown or orange spots on the underside of fern leaves?
a.
cells
b.
wax
c.
cytoplasm
d.
spore cases
Hint
2.
A ______is a small nonvascular plant that has stems and leaves but no roots.
a.
kelp
b.
moss
c.
paramecium
d.
lichen
Hint
3.
What do scientists call the joining of a sperm and egg?
a.
diffusion
b.
fertilization
c.
osmosis
d.
budding
Hint
4.
Where is food and water stored in a fern ?
a.
leaves
b.
roots
c.
underground stem
d.
flowers
Hint
5.
What structures do mosses use to take up water by osmosis?
a.
leaves
b.
cones
c.
hairlike structures
d.
roots
Hint
6.
Mosses and ________ make up the two main groups of nonvascular plants.
a.
seaweed
b.
liverworts
c.
slime molds
d.
kelp
Hint
7.
What are the tubelike cells called that carry water and dissolved minerals through the plant's roots and stems to the leaves?
a.
phloem
b.
ribosomes
c.
xylem
d.
hyphae
Hint
8.
Which of the following is a trait of nonvascular plants ?
a.
They do not have chloroplasts.
b.
They are consumers.
c.
They do not have tubelike cells.
d.
Their cells have no cell walls.
Hint
9.
_______ is a nonvascular plant that is cut, dried, and used as a fuel in some parts of the world.
a.
Reindeer moss
b.
A liverwort
c.
An oak
d.
Sphagnum moss
Hint
10.
There are two kinds of seed plants: conifers and _____.
a.
fungi
b.
nonvascular plants
c.
mosses
d.
flowering plants
Hint
