Test Answers
Introduction to Plants
Choose the correct answer:
1. Plants get carbon dioxide from
c. Air
2. Parts that can be found in an onion cell not in
a mouse cell are
c. Cell wall, large vacuole, mitochondria
3. Plants with tube like structures for transporting
water are called
d. Xylem
4. Plants with no specialized system for conducting
water are
c. Nonvascular plants
5. The body of a _______________ is divided into
rounded sections or lobes
c. Liverwort
6. The _____ stage of a plant reproduces nonsexually with spores
d. Sporophyte
7. Mosses and Liverworts have root like structures
called
d. Rhizoid
8.Nonsexual reproductive cells with a protective
covering are called
b. Spores
9.Nonvascular plants are
c. Small in size
10. Seedless plants are
d. Ferns, horsetails, clubmosses
11. Which of the following do ferns have?
b. Rhizoids
12. Explain why mosses are usually found in moist areas.
Mosses lack the true roots ( instead they have thread like structures called
rhizoids). They lack the vascular tissue that helps transport the water
throughout the plant. Hence they need to live in moist areas to get their need
of water.