1. What is a plant?
a) an organism which is green and has leaves
b) an organism which is green, autotrophic and stationary
c) a multicellular, photosyntheic organism, which lives on land or water
d) a multicellar, autotrophic organism which is nomadic

2. How long ago did plants make the transition from water to land?
a) 1 billion years
b) 500 million
c) 300 million
d) 800 thousand

3. What made it possible for plants to make the transition to land?
a) the development of specialized vascular tissue
b) less rainfall and more sunshine
c) the development of roots
d) a change in the genetic make-up

4. True or False , the following are plant divisions: Monocotyledones, and Dicotyledones.

5. True or False , the following are plant divisions: Hepaticae, Anthocerotae, and Musci.

6. Which of the following are characteristics of bryophytes?
a) xylem and pholem
b) structurized root systems
c) “true” leaves
d) specialized body for food storage and support
 

7. True or False, alternation of generations is part of the bryophyte life cycle?

8. Which of the following is most necessary for moss to reproduce?
a) constant sunshine
b) water
c) phtosynthesis
d) soil

9. Which process signals the start of the moss life cycle?
a) fusion of sperm and egg
b) growth of rhizoids
c) release of spores from a capsule
d) expulsion of sperm cells from the antheridium

10. In the Moss Life Cycle, where does meiosis occur ?
a) capsule
b) calyptra
c) archegonium
d) antheridium

11. True or False, In moss a single gametophyte might bear either an archegonium or an antheridium, but not both?

12. The Rhynia major differes from a Bryophyte in that:
a) it has rhizoids instead of roots
b) it lived on land
c) it produced its own food
d) it contained specialized vascular tissue

13.  The xylem is:
a) the stem on which the sporphhytes grow
b) specialized vascular tissue which conducts water and ions from the roots
    to the leaves of the plant
c) specialized vascular tissue which conducts dissolved sugars from the
    leaves to other parts of the plant
d) a complex system of veins which runs throughout the leaf

14. True or False?  The Phloem’s conducting element consists of sieve cells or sieve tubes.

15. True or False? The xylem’s conducting element consists of traichieds and vessel members.

16. Heterospory is...
a) when the reproductive cycle of a plant produces a single spore
b) the production of gametophytes
c) when the reproductive cycle of a plant produces 2 different spores
d) the fusion of two different brach systems

17.  Which of the following is not a division of a seedless vascular plant with a living representative?
a) Lycophyta (club mosses)
b) Musci (mosses)
c) Sphenophyta (horsetails)
d) Psilophyta (whisk ferns)

18. Which of the following in NOT true about reproduction in ferns?
a) Sporangium bearing leaves are called “fiddle heads”
b) Fern stems are not as complex as those of angiosperms and
     gymnosperms
c) Ferns need water to reproduce
d) Spores develop on the underside of leaves

19.  True or False?  Sporophylls are leaves which produce sporangium?

20. What is the basic difference between gymnosperms and angiosperms?
a) Gymnosperm seeds do not have a protective coat and angiosperms seeds do.
b) Gymnosperm seeds have a protective coat and angiosperms seeds do not.
c) Angiosperms are plants and Gymnosperms are not.
d) Angiosperms include conifers and Gymnosperms include rice.

21. True or False? Angiosperm's and gymnosperm's life cycle is called the alternation of generations?

22. What is alternation of generations ?
a) The process of alternating of genes within one plant organism.
b) The alternating seeds and leaves that plants produce.
c) The process that allows angiosperms and gmnosperms to transport water and food.
d) A life cycle that alternates between the haploid stage and the diploid stage.

23. A sporophyte is a              plant where as a gametophyte is a                      plant.
a) haploid, diploid
b) gamete producing, sporophyte producing
c) diploid, haploid
d) immature, mature

24. Fertilization occurs in gymnosperms when the mature         , releases two non-motile sperm. They travel through the              that the               has produced and comes into contact with the female gametophyte in the           .
a) pollen grain, pollen tube, pollen grain, ovule
b) cotyledon, microspore, megaspore, ovule
c) male gametophyte, pollen grain, pollen grain, cotyledon
d) ovule, pollen tube, pollen, megaspore

25.Why is it important for plants to have selective structures that encourage regular visits ?
The selective structures keep the flower's                  from being wasted and increases the precision of the animal's              deposits in other flowers.
a) waste, pollen
b) pollen, waste
c) pollen, pollen
d) petals, pollen

26. A douglas fir is an example of a (an)
a) flowering plant
b) angiosperm
c) fungi
d) gymnosperm

27. How are the flower and the fruit beneficial to the reproduction process of the angiosperm
a) neither the flower or the fruit are beneficial
b) flowers  attract the pollinators and fruits enhance the dispersal of seeds
c) all flowers and fruits are easily accessible to all animals, increasing the reproduction rate
d) flowers enhance the dispersal of seeds and fruit attracts pollinators

28. True or False ? Plants are vital to all life on earth.
 

29.  Label the parts of the flower
a) stigma, pollen grain
b) petal, stigma
c) anther, pollen tube
d) filament, pollen tube
e) sepal, petal
f) style, filament
g) filament, pollen tube
h) ovary, ovule
i) ovary, ovule
j) sepal, anther

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


 
 
 
 
 
 
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