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Chapter 26 Test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The dermal tissue of a vascular plant? | Forms the protective outer layer of the plants. |
| Which of the following does not describe sugar maple leaves? | They are compound. |
| The primary photosynthetic organs of plants are the? | Leaves. |
| Translocation is the movement of organic compounds from a source to a? | Sink. |
| Which of the following does not describe a non-woody stem? | The center of the stem is called heart wood. |
| The vascular tissue of a leaf is found in the? | Mesophyll. |
| When stomata are open water vapor diffuses out of a leaf in a process called? | Transporation. |
| Water will keep moving upward in a plant as long as there is an unbroken column of water in the? | Xylem. |
| When guard cells take in water they swell and bend away from each other opening the? | Stomata. |
| Sugar passes through the xylem of a sugar maple tree as part of a watery solution called? | Sap. |
| Roots take in water from the soil by _____. | Osmosis. |
| The cells that carry out metabolic functions for the sieve cells of phloem are called _____. | Companion cells. |
| The loss of water by ___ creates a pool that draws water up though the ___ in the stem and into the leaves. | Transporation and Xylem. |
| ____ is the movement of organic compounds within a plant from a source to a sink. | Translocation. |
| The term ____ refers to a part of a plant that organic compounds are derived to. | Sink. |
| The term ____ refers to a part of a plant that provides organic compounds for other parts of the plant. | Source. |
| The loss of water vapor from a plant is called ____. | Transporation. |
| Dermal tissue | Makes up the protective outer layer of a plant. |
| Tracheids | Narrow elongated xylem cells with pits through which water flows. |
| Vessel cell | A type of xylem cell with larger perforations in its ends. |
| Petiole | A stalk that attaches a leaf to a stem. |
| Leaflets | Sections of a compound leaf. |
| Mesophyll | The ground tissue in a leaf. |
| Palisade layer | Rows of closely packed columnar mesophyll cells just beneath the upper epidermis. |
| Node | The point at which a leaf is attached to a stem. |
| Inter nodes | Spaces on a stem between nodes. |
| Cortex | The ground tissue surrounding the vascular tissue in a root. |
| Pith | The interlayers of ground tissue in a stem. |
| Vascular bundle | Cluster of vascular tissues in a herbaceous stem. |
| Heartwood | In the center of a woody stem is the part that contains xylem cells that no longer conduct water. |
| Sapwood | In a woody stem the layer contains xylem cells that still conduct water. |
| Cork | The dermal tissue that is located on woody stems and roots and consists of several layers of dead cells. |
| Root hairs | Slender projections from the epidermis cells just behind a root tip that increase the absorption of water and minerals. |
| Root cap | A mass of cells that covers an actively growing root tip. |