Activities Quiz

Chapter 29: Plant Diversity I: How Plants Colonized Land

Activities Quiz

1 .

Angiosperms are most closely related to _____. (Activity: Highlights of Plant Phylogeny)

green algae

charophyceans

bryophytes

seedless vascular plants

gymnosperms

2 .

Which of these was the dominant plant group at the time that dinosaurs were the dominant animals? (Activity: Highlights of Plant Phylogeny)

seedless vascular plants

charophyceans

gymnosperms

angiosperms

bryophytes

3 .

This is an image of a(n) _____. (Activity: Highlights of Plant Phylogeny)

question 3

bryophyte

gymnosperm

charophycean

angiosperm

seedless vascular plant

4 .

Plants evolved from green algae approximately _____ million years ago. (Activity: Highlights of Plant Phylogeny)

130

400

475

2,200

3,500

5 .

_____ are an example of seedless vascular plants. (Activity: Highlights of Plant Phylogeny)

Mosses

Lilacs

Charophyceans

Ferns

Pine trees

6 .

The living plants that are most similar to the first plants to bear gametangia are the _____. (Activity: Highlights of Plant Phylogeny)

bryophytes

charophyceans

seedless vascular plants

gymnosperms

angiosperms

7 .

Which of these characteristics is shared by algae and seed plants? (Activity: Terrestrial Adaptations of Plants)

embryo development within gametangia

roots and shoots

vascular tissue

pollen

chloroplasts

8 .

Which of these represents the sporophyte generation of the moss life cycle? (Activity: Moss Life Cycle)

question 8

A

B

C

D

E

9 .

In moss, _____ produce sperm. (Activity: Moss Life Cycle)

sporangia

antheridia

embryos

archegonia

protonemata

10 .

The sperm produced by mosses require _____ to reach an archegonium. (Activity: Moss Life Cycle)

wind

light

moisture

the development of a flower

animals

11 .

In the moss life cycle _____ cells within a sporangium undergo _____ to produce _____ spores. (Activity: Moss Life Cycle)

diploid ... meiosis ... haploid

haploid ... mitosis ... haploid

diploid ... mitosis ... diploid

diploid ... mitosis ... haploid

haploid ... meiosis ... haploid

12 .

In mosses gametes are produced by _____; in ferns gametes are produced by _____. (Activity: Moss Life Cycle), (Activity: Fern Life Cycle)

binary fission ... mitosis

meiosis ... meiosis

meiosis ... mitosis

mitosis ... meiosis

mitosis ... mitosis

13 .

Which of these structures is diploid? (Activity: Fern Life Cycle)

question 13

A

B

C

D

E

14 .

Where do fern antheridia develop? (Activity: Fern Life Cycle)

on the underside of the gametophyte

on the tip of the gametophyte

on the tip of the sporophyte

on the tip of the haploid protonema

on the underside of the sporophyte

15 .

The conspicuous part of a fern plant is a _____. (Activity: Fern Life Cycle)

haploid gametophyte

diploid gametophyte

diploid sorus

diploid sporophyte

haploid sporophyte