uniT REINFORCEMENT 1 Structures and classification of plants

1 Name: Date: Class:

 1 Look for a plant with roots and a flower and draw it. Label the parts you know on your drawing. Then
connect the organs you have identified with their function.

This organ enables plants to take water and

minerals from the soil.

This organ keeps the plant upright and supports

it. It also carries substances through vessels.

This is the organ which captures sunlight and

produces the nutrients the plant needs
through photosynthesis.

This is the reproductive organ.

 2 Use this key to classify the following plants.

Does it have flowers?

Yes No

Are the seeds located inside the fruit? Does it have roots, leaves and a stem with vessels?

Yes No Yes No

Angiosperm Gymnosperma Fern Moss

a) b) c) d)

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uniT REINFORCEMENT 2 Plant reproduction

1 Name: Date: Class:

 1 Cut out the images and put them in order on a timeline. Write down an explanation of what each one
represents.

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uniT REINFORCEMENT 13 Plant nutrition and environment

1 Name: Date: Class:

 Look at the chart bellow. We can see the approximate variation in the quantity of carbon dioxide
released in the air in a wood of beech trees.

Seasonal variation

Quantity of carbon dioxide

winter summer winter summer

 1 When is the quantity of carbon dioxide at a maximum? And at a minimum?

 2 What will it be like in atumn, higher or lower than in summer? Explain why.

 3 Why do you think the quantity of carbon dioxide varies throughout the seasons?

 4 There are also variations in the quantity of carbon dioxide released in the air during the day and at
night. When will it be higher? Why?

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uniT REVIEW

1 Name: Date: Class:

 1 Classify these plants by writing the letter in the corresponding circle.

a b
Plants with Angiosperms
flowers
Gymnosperms

With roots, stem, leaves and vessels

Plants without
flowers Without roots, stem, leaves and vessels

c
d

 2 Complete the following tables.

PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESPIRATION
Required Released Produce Required Released Produce
substances substances substances substances

 3 How is raw sap different from elaborated sap?

 4 Which of these sentences is correct? Explain why and correct the wrong one.

a) Photosynthesis in plants takes place b) Respiration occurs in plants both

both during the day and at night. during the day and at night.

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1 Name: Date: Class:

 5 Look at these two processes and describe what is happening in each one. What is the main difference?

a b

 6 Connect each picture with the type of fragment from which the plant reproduces asexually.

Stolon Tuber Bulb

 7 Explain the following ways in which plants respond to their environment.

Phototropism:

Gravitropism:

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uniT EXTENSION

1 Nombre:  Fecha:  Curso: 

To understand the organisation

of terrestrial plants we are
going to look at the time when
they first conquered land,
about 400 million years ago.
They had to solve many
problems to survive out of
the water.

Problem 1. In some places vegetation is very Problem 2. Plants now live in a dry
dense and plants need to grow a lot to atmosphere, the air. How do they protect
reach the light. How do they manage to themselves from drying out?
stay upright?

Problem 4. A damp environment is

necessary for fertilisation to take place.
Problem 3. Their leaves are far from the soil. How can fertilisation occur in such a dry
How do they manage to take water? environment as the desert?

1 2 3 4

 1 Connect the three columns to show how plants solved their problems.

SOLUTION STRUCTURES
Problem 1 Structures are covered with layers and protective Stem.
substances which prevent the loss of water.
Problem 2 Through a protected organ (with a damp
Xylem and
interior) which contains reproductive cells.
phloem vessels.
Problem 3 Stems become much more resistant. Bark of stems.

Problem 4 Vessels are formed to transport substances Flower.

throughout the plant.

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