c.

site of photosynthesis
d. absorbs minerals from the soil
2nd QUARTERLY EXAM IN EARTH AND LIFE
SCIENCE 8. The xylem is found in separate regions
between the arms of the phloem in dicot
1. Water, carbon dioxide and energy are roots.
produced during this process. a. true b. false
a. Photosynthesis
b. Respiration 9. Which tissue within the vascular cylinder
c. Carbon dioxide appears star-shaped in dicot roots?
d. Oxygen a. pericycle
b. xylem
2. Which of the following comparisons between c. phloem
a monocot and a dicot is NOT correct? d. pith
a. one cotyledon in seed—two cotyledons in
seed. 10. Just as the root is separated into
b. vascular bundles scattered in stem- zones of cell division, elongation, and
vascular bundles in a distinct ring. maturation, so can the stem be separated as
c. leaf veins form a net pattern—leaf it grows from the apical meristem.
veins form a parallel pattern a. true b. false
d. flower parts in threes and multiples of
three—flower parts in fours or fives and 11. An internode is a segment between the
multiples of four or five nodes on a stem.
a. true b. false
3. Flowering plants are divided into three
groups: monocots, dicots, and tricots. 12. Which of the following cells remains
a. true b. false undifferentiated and is capable of continually
dividing and producing new cells?
4. Which tissue system fills the bulk of the a. meristematic cell
interior of a plant? b. vessel element
a. dermal tissue c. companion cell
b. ground tissue d. tracheid
c. vascular tissue
13. Which part of a plant functions to directly
5. Xylem and phloem belong to the ______ support leaves, flowers, and fruits, conducts
tissue system. substances, and helps store water and the
a. dermal products of photosynthesis?
b. ground a. root c. petiole
c. vascular b. stem d. bark

6. Which of the following cells are often 14. In temperate zones, what protects a
hollow, nonliving, with extremely strong terminal bud on a stem during the winter?
walls, and support other plant tissues and a. axillary buds c. bud scales
organs? b. bark d. bud cap
a. epidermal cells
b. parenchymal cell 15. What makes cork cells waterproof?
c. sclerenchymal cell a. They are impregnated with suberin.
d. tracheid cell b. They are impregnated with the Casparian
strip.
7. Which of the following is NOT a function c. They are dead cells
of a plant root? d. They have sieve plates that allow water to
a. storage of photosynthetic products drain to the outside.
b. absorb water from the soil
16. Which of the following structures is NOT c. Evolutionary changes are often not directly
found in a leaf? observable because they occur over vast
a. blade c. leaf primordia expanses of time.
b. petiole d. veins d. Evolution is the changes of organisms
that function perfectly in their environment
17. The top and bottom part of a dicot, over time.
temperate-zone leaf is called the ______ .
a. epidermis c. palisade mesophyll 25. Imagine a tree frog sitting on a limb of a
b. guard cells d. spongy mesophyll tree when an arboreal snake suddenly attacks
it. To escape predation, the frog leaps from the
18. Stomates are more likely to be open limb to the ground. The fall would be fatal,
during the night and closed during the day. except that the frog spreads its fingers and
a. true b. false toes, forming small parachutes that break its
fall. After its initial discovery, the frog regularly
19. The force that initiates evolution is ______ escapes predators using this procedure.
a. Variation Through time and use, the webbing in its
b. Mutation fingers and toes expand and stretch so that
c. Extinction they become even more parachute-like and are
d. Adaptation more effective at breaking the frog's fall.
According to Lamarck, when this frog mates
20. The earliest geological time period among with a female of the same species, he would
the following is _______ expect that all of the frogs’ offspring
a. Cambrian ________________
b. Permian
c. Jurassic a. would have webbing that was a size halfway
d. Quaternary between the mother's and father's webbing.
b. would have expanded webbing just like
21. On the Origin of Species was written by the father frog.
______ c. would have normal regular webbed fingers
a. Charles Darwin and toes.
b. Ludmila Kuprianova d. would have no webbing between its fingers
c. Mikhail A. Fedonkin and toes.
d. None of the above
26. Sunlight is needed for this process.
22. Pidgeon, platypus and panda are _______ a. Photosynthesis
a. Homeothermic b. Respiration
b. Poikilothermic c. Transpiration
c. Hyperthermic d. Mutation
d. None of the above
27. How do roots help a plant survive?
23. Darwin’s and Lamarck’s theories of a. Brings water and nutrients to the plant
evolution both suggest that ______________ b. Keeps it standing up
a. species are fixed. c. To protect from direct sunlight
b. the main mechanism of evolution depends d. Produce oxygen
on the use and disuse of certain organs.
c. the environment creates favorable 28. A group of individual organisms that
characteristics on demand. interbreed and produce fertile, viable offspring.
d. the interaction of organisms with their a. population
environment is important in the b. individual
evolutionary process. c. predator
d. species
24. Which of the following statement is true of
evolution? 29. Speciation is the biological definition of
a. There is forethought and planning behind species, which works sexually reproducing
evolution. organisms, is a group of actually or potentially
b. Humans are the pinnacle of evolution and interbreeding individuals
once they evolved, the evolution of life on this a. true b. false
planet ceased.
30. A condition in which a cell or organism has
an extra set, or sets of chromosomes.
a. aneuploidy
b. polyploidy
c. autopolyploidy
d. none of the above

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Niña Margarrette Jacobe-

Earth and Life Science