Botany Quiz: Plant Biology Practice Questions

1. A plant cell wall is made of: a. cellulose b. guard cells c. stomata d. starch 2. Which substance is produced by plants: a. oxygen b. soil c. water d. minerals 3. Carbon dioxide enters the leaves through the: a. stem b. flowers c. stomata d. roots 4. What makes...

1. A plant cell wall is made of: a. cellulose b. guard cells c. stomata d. starch 2. Which substance is produced by plants: a. oxygen b. soil c. water d. minerals 3. Carbon dioxide enters the leaves through the: a. stem b. flowers c. stomata d. roots 4. What makes plants green?: a. carbon dioxide b. chlorophyll c. iron d. water 5. Which is NOT a function of roots in a plant?: a. absorb nutrients form the soil b. make food for the plant c. anchor the plant d. absorb nutrients from the soil 6. How are seeds spread?: a. animal b. all the above c. water d. air 7. The landing of pollen on a stigma is: a. egg b. fertilization c. grain d. pollination 8. The colored part of the flower are the: a. petals b. leaves c. sepals d. stems 9. What is the food making process off plants? a. Germination b. Photosynthesis c. Pollen  d. Chlorophyll 10. How do plants reproduce? a. Sexually b. they do not reproduce c. asexually d. sexually and asexually 11. How does water travel through a plant? a. through the stem and root b. through the stem c. through the fruit d. through the roots 12. Leaves that have a long central stalk, with paired leaflets coming off the side are called:  a. palmate  b. pinnate  c. prostrate  d. pinhead 13. After fertilization, the............ of a plant eventually becomes the fruit:  a. seed  b. ovary  c. Sepal  d. petal 14. Transpiration is the process:  a. people use to move plants from place to place  b. plants use to make food  c. plants use to move their seeds  d. plants use to release extra water into the air 15. What does the vascular tissue phloem do?  a. It transports water from roots to leaves  b. It transports sugar from leaves to all parts of the plant  c. It makes up tissue only found in stems  d. It consists of dead tubular cells 16. The loss of water vapor from the leaves and stems of plants by means of evaporation through the stomata is:  a. transpiration  b. perspiration  c. condensation  d. evaporation 17. Two types of roots are:  a. brown and red  b. long and short  c. deep and squiggly  d. taproots and fibrous 18. Ferns and mosses make spores:  a. true  b. false 19. Which adaptation would be helpful for a plant that lives in a dry environment?  a. being poisonous  b. wide leaves  c. bright flowers  d. waxy covering 20. The four parts of a flower are its sepals, petals, stamens, and leaves:  a. true  b. false 21. Which structure is considered the male reproductive part of a flowering plant?  a. pistil  b. stamen  c. petal  d. sepal 22. A conifer has the adaptation of what?  a. trap leaves  b. thorns, spikes, or prickles  c. showy leaves  d. needles 23. Which type of inflorescence has flowers that form a flat surface?  a. corymb   b. catkins  c. umbels  d. raceme 24. Geotropisms is a plant’s response to the stimuli of: a. Gravity b. Temperature c. Water d. Touch 25. The female part of a flower is the…….. , and the male part of a flower is the…..? a. Stem; root b. Cone; sepal c. C. petal; seed d. Pistil; stamen 26. Into what two groups are vascular plants separated?: a. Flowering (angiosperms), nonflowering (gymnosperms) b. None of the above c. Mosses, fern d. Liliaceae, poaceae 27. The vascular tissue through which food travels from the leaves to the stems is:  a. xylem  b. cork  c. roots  d. phloem 28. The first thing a seed grows is the:  a. stem  b. leaf  c. flower  d. root 29. What is the correct order in the life cycle of a plant?  a. seed → mature plant → fruit → seedling  b. fruit → seedling → seed → mature plant  c. seed → seedling → mature plant → fruit  d. mature plant → seed → fruit → seedling 30. Which plant is nonvascular?  a. moss  b. oak tree  c. rose   d. sunflower 31. Nonvascular plants do not reproduce by seeds. How do they reproduce?  a. fungus  b. spores  c. mold  d. moss 32. A(n) ……… has two seed leaves:  a. dicot seed  b. embryo  c. monocot seed 33. Spore cases in most ferns form on the underside of the fern leaves:  a. true  b. false 34. A tomato is an example of a:  a. berry  b. drupe  c. multiple fruit  d. aggregate fruit 35. What are all the types of specialized roots?  a. tap root, shallow root, deep root  b. aerial root, tap root, shallow root  c. aerial root, leaf root, shallow root 36. Flowering plants are called:  a. bryophytes  b. gymnosperms  c. thallophytes  d. angiosperms 37. ………………… is the reproduction of new plants from roots, stem, or leaves:  a. Splitting  b. Sexual reproduction  c. Vegetative propagation  d. Budding 38. Which part of the seed is used for protection?  a. seed leaf  b. cotyledon  c. embryo  d. seed coat 39. Plants that make seeds but do not have flowers are:  a. algae  b. flowering plants  c. conifers  d. spores 40. Aerial roots do not come in contact with:  a. water  b. soil  c. air  d. sunlight 41. Three parts of all plants are:  a. roots, stems, and flowers  b. stems, roots, and leaves  c. roots, stems, and petals  d. leaves, stems, and flowers 42. Plants can be divided into the two main groups of:  a. nonvehicular and vehicular  b. nonsense and sense  c. nonvascular and vascular  d. nonvaporize and vaporize 43. Cones are the reproductive structures of:  a. mosses  b. ferns  c. flowering plants  d. gymnosperms 44. The main job of the male part of the flower is to:  a. make seeds  b. smell good  c. attract pollinators  d. make pollen 45. Which vocabulary word means to have a cell with a nucleus:  a. nucleic  b. prokaryotic  c. embryotic  d. eukaryotic 46. Sepals:  a. protect developing flowers  b. produce pollen  c. produce ovaries  d. attract insects 47. Which of these is NOT part of a flower:  a. Petal  b. Pistil  c. Lenticle  d. Sepal 48. Which of these terms is NOT involved in plant reproduction?:  a. Seed  b. Taproot  c. Gamete  d. Spore 49. A fruit develops from which of these structures on a plant?:  a. leaf  b. flower  c. stem  d. root 50. The part of a plant that makes the food for the plant is the:  a. stem  b. flowers  c. roots  d. leaves