1. Which is not an adaptive advantage of a seed plant?
A. Pollen that allows a seed plant to reproduce without free-standing water
B. Pollen that provides food for bees and other insects
C. Seeds that nourish and protect the plant embryo
D. Seeds that allow plants to disperse to new places
2. Which plants lack a vascular system?
A. Ferns
B. Gymnosperms
C. Angiosperms
D. Mosses
3. Which plants do not depend on free-standing water to carry sperm to eggs?
A. Mosses
B. Ferns
C. Club mosses
D. Seed plants
4. Which plant group produces fruits?
A. Angiosperms
B. Gymnosperms
C. Cycads
D. Conifers
5. Which of the following is a characteristic of conifers?
A. Fruits
B. Needlelike leaves
C. Flowers
D. Rhizomes
6. Why is pollination in angiosperms more efficient than in gymnosperms?
A. Angiosperms produce more pollen than do gymnosperms.
B. Animals help transfer pollen directly from flower to flower in many angiosperms.
C. Pollen is transferred directly from cone to cone in gymnosperms.
D. Wind is an efficient pollinator.
7. Which adaptation gives flowering plants an evolutionary advantage?
A. Insects carry seeds from place to place when they gather nectar.
B. Small animals eat seeds and digest the tough seed covering.
C. Burrs on seeds prevent animals from eating them.
D. Animals are attracted to sweet fruits and disperse the seeds they contain.
8. Which flowering-plant group is correctly paired with a characteristic?
A. Monocot: flower parts in multiples of four or five
B. Monocot: ringed vascular tissue
C. Dicot: netlike veins
D. Dicot: scattered vascular tissue
9. What is true about woody plant stems?
A. Their cells have walls containing a lot of lignin and cellulose.
B. They are herbaceous.
C. Their cells contain wood.
D. They have stiff stems and flexible branches.
10. What occurs during the first year of a biennial plant’s life cycle?
A. Flowers and seeds are made
B. Fruits are produced
C. A short stem, leaves close to the ground, and underground food reserves are made
D. A tall stem and many leaves are formed
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a, d, d, a, b, b, d, c, a, c
1. Pollen is a food source for insects and animals
7. Animals that transfer pollen and eat nectar do not carry seeds.
1. B; insects don’t eat pollen, they eat nectar
2. D; mosses are bryophytes which don’t have vascular systems
3. D; all the other plants use spores to disperse which require water
4. A; angiosperms are the only plants that make flowers and fruit
5. D; conifers are pine trees, they have needles
6. B; none of the other answers make sense
7. D; insects don’t carry seeds, they carry pollen; small animals digesting the outer covering of the seed would digest the seed too; preventing animals from eating the seeds inhibits seed dispersal; D is the only one that makes sense
8. C; monocots have parallel venation and have scattered vascular tissue, dicots have netlike venation and ringed vascular tissue
9. A; woody plants are not herbaceous, cells don’t “contain” wood, and the last answer is not always correct
10. C; biennials grow for the first year, then lay dormant
1) b
c
2) d
3) d
4) a
5) b
6) b
7) a
9) a
10) c