POB ASSESSMENT TEST PAPER QUESTIONS
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●● Which of the following plants can be used in gardens to improve the
water-holding capacity of the soil?
Answer: Peat Moss
●● The vascular tissue in plants that transports water and minerals up
from the roots is called the?
Answer: Xylem
●● A mature moss sporophyte is ____.
Answer: Brown and not photosynthetic
●● What does phloem do?
Answer: Transports organic nutrients
●● In vascular plants, which generation is dominant?
Answer: Sporophyte
,●● Seedless vascular plants disperse their offspring by releasing
windblown?
Answer: Spores
●● Peat moss can be used in garden ____ to improve its water-holding
capacity.
Answer: Soil
●● What are the two groups of seedless vascular plants?
Answer: Lycophytes and Ferns
●● Underground coal beds contain the remains of ____ plants, such as
forests of ferns and early seed plants.
Answer: Carboniferous
●● Which of the following are parts of the developing sporophyte in
mosses?
Answer: Capsule
Foot
●● Lycophytes, also called club mosses, were some of the first land
plants to have what kind of tissue?
Answer: Vascular
,●● What kind of plants is the gametophyte generation the dominant
generation?
Answer: Nonvascular
●● In vascular plants, which generation is dominant? Sporophyte
Answer: Sporophyte
●● Select all true statements about lycophytes.
Answer: Tightly packed leaves that cover the stems and branches
Have a fleshy, underground stem called rhizome
Have vascular tissues, despite resembling true mosses
●● What is an underground horizontal stem called?
Answer: Rhizome
●● Microphylls are small leaves found in the plant group called club?
Answer: Moss
●● Unlike bryophytes, lycophytes?
Answer: Produce vascular tissue
, ●● Select all pteridophytes
Answer: Ferns
Whisk ferns
Horsetails
●● In lycophytes, an underground horizontal stem that sends up upright
aerial stems is called a(n)?
Answer: Rhizome
●● Small leaves of lycophytes are called?
Answer: Microphylls
●● What are the vertical leaves of a fern called?
Answer: Fronds
●● In the sporophyte stage of the fern life cycle, ____ on the underside
of each frond produce ____.
Answer: Sporangia; spores
●● Fiddleheads are structures found on the sporophyte stage of?
Answer: Fern
●● True or False? Another term for a fern is a frond.
AND SOLUTIONS GRADED A+ FULL
REVIEW GUIDE
●● Which of the following plants can be used in gardens to improve the
water-holding capacity of the soil?
Answer: Peat Moss
●● The vascular tissue in plants that transports water and minerals up
from the roots is called the?
Answer: Xylem
●● A mature moss sporophyte is ____.
Answer: Brown and not photosynthetic
●● What does phloem do?
Answer: Transports organic nutrients
●● In vascular plants, which generation is dominant?
Answer: Sporophyte
,●● Seedless vascular plants disperse their offspring by releasing
windblown?
Answer: Spores
●● Peat moss can be used in garden ____ to improve its water-holding
capacity.
Answer: Soil
●● What are the two groups of seedless vascular plants?
Answer: Lycophytes and Ferns
●● Underground coal beds contain the remains of ____ plants, such as
forests of ferns and early seed plants.
Answer: Carboniferous
●● Which of the following are parts of the developing sporophyte in
mosses?
Answer: Capsule
Foot
●● Lycophytes, also called club mosses, were some of the first land
plants to have what kind of tissue?
Answer: Vascular
,●● What kind of plants is the gametophyte generation the dominant
generation?
Answer: Nonvascular
●● In vascular plants, which generation is dominant? Sporophyte
Answer: Sporophyte
●● Select all true statements about lycophytes.
Answer: Tightly packed leaves that cover the stems and branches
Have a fleshy, underground stem called rhizome
Have vascular tissues, despite resembling true mosses
●● What is an underground horizontal stem called?
Answer: Rhizome
●● Microphylls are small leaves found in the plant group called club?
Answer: Moss
●● Unlike bryophytes, lycophytes?
Answer: Produce vascular tissue
, ●● Select all pteridophytes
Answer: Ferns
Whisk ferns
Horsetails
●● In lycophytes, an underground horizontal stem that sends up upright
aerial stems is called a(n)?
Answer: Rhizome
●● Small leaves of lycophytes are called?
Answer: Microphylls
●● What are the vertical leaves of a fern called?
Answer: Fronds
●● In the sporophyte stage of the fern life cycle, ____ on the underside
of each frond produce ____.
Answer: Sporangia; spores
●● Fiddleheads are structures found on the sporophyte stage of?
Answer: Fern
●● True or False? Another term for a fern is a frond.
