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Three basic types of cells that make up plant tissues.
- parenchyma
- collenchyma
- sclerenchyma
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What is the most common plant cell type
parenchyma
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WHat does a parenchyma cell store?
oil, starches,and water
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Which cell type helps heal wounds?
parenchyma
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WHich cell type has thin, flexible walls?
parenchyma
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Which cell type provides support to a growing plant?
collenchyma
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Which cell type is strong and flexible?
collenchyma
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Which cell type makes up celery strings?
collenchyma
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Which cell type has unevenly thick cell walls?
collenchyma
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What is the strongest cell type?
sclerenchyma
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In a sclerenchyma cell the second cell wall is hardened by ______
lignin
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Which cell type dies when it reaches maturity?
sclerenchyma
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which cell type is used by humans to make linen and rope?
sclerenchyma
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What three tissue systems make up plant organs?
dermal, ground, and vascular
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What tissue covers the outside layer of a plant?
dermal
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What tissue forms the bark of a tree?
dermal
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What tissue protects the plant?
dermal
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What tissue secretes cuticle of leaves?
dermal
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What tissue is found inside a plant?
ground
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What tissue provides support for the plant?
ground
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What tissue stores materials in roots and stems?
ground
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What tissue is most commonly made of parenchyma?
ground
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What tissue transports water, minerals, and organic compounds?
vascular
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What tissue is two networks of hollow tubes?
vascular
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What does xylem transport?
water and minerals
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What does phloem transport?
photosynthetic product
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What tissue contains xylem and phloem?
vasculas
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____ ____ are short and wide
vessel elements
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____ ___ long and narrow
tracheid cells
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___ cells die at maturity
xylem
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Plants passively transport water through the xylem
Cohesion is the tendency of water molecule to bond with other water molecules
Adhesion is the tendency of water molecules to bond with other substances
The cohesion-tension theory
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Water travels from ____ to the ___ of trees.
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Explain how water moves in plants,.
- absorption in roots
- cohesion and adhesion in xylem
- transpiration in leaves
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The loss of water vapor through leaves
transpiration
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Water vapor exists leaf ___
stomata
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___ ___ ____ have holes at the ends.
Sieve tube elements
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Is xylem alive? phloem?
no; yes
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Well supported theory that describes how sugars move through a plant within phloem.
pressure-flow model
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Well supported theory that describes how water and dissolved minerals move through a plant within xylem
cohesion-tension theory
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Anchor plants and absorb mineral nutrients from soil
roots
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What supports the plant and absorbs, transports, and stores nutrients.
roots
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What helps roots with absorption?
root hairs
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Protects the growing part of the roots and covers the tip
root cap
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the area of growth in a root
apical meristem
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contains vascular tissues (xylem and phloem) in a root
vascular cylinder
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Two major types of roots
fibrous and taproot
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Root system that consists of many equally sized roots
fibrous
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Root system that consists of one main root
taproot
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Supports plants, transports minerals, and provides storage
stems
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The increase in a plants length. width?
primary growth; secondary growth
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A mineral needed in large amounts. small amounts?
nitrogen; magnesium
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what represents one year on a tree?
light and dark bands (rings)
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unspecialized tissue of dividing cells
meristem
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Usually broad and flat, collects sunlight for photosynthesis, connect to the stem by a petiole
blade
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between a leafs dermal tissue layer
mesophyll
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surrounds each stomata
guard cell
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When does stomata open or close?
when a guard cell changes its shape
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