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Fifth Grade (Grade 5) Botany Questions

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Grade 5 Botany
Different kinds of plants living in the same area must compete for water. Which kind of plant has the greatest chance of survival?
  1. plant with the largest leaves
  2. plant with the most compact root system
  3. plant with the largest root system
  4. plant with needles instead of leaves
Grade 5 Botany
What tiny pores or "mouths" on a leaf (or other green part of the plant) take in gases to help make food for the plant?
  1. striations
  2. stomata
  3. spores
  4. staccato
Grade 5 Botany
What is the sprouting of a seed as it develops into a new plant?
  1. pollination
  2. fertilization
  3. germination
  4. respiration
Grade 5 Botany
Which plant is flowerless, seedless, and vascular?
  1. moss
  2. duckweed
  3. evergreen
  4. fern
Grade 5 Botany
What are the four main things a plant needs to grow?
  1. water, light, heat, and oxygen
  2. water, light, carbon dioxide, and warmth
  3. water, nutrients, carbon dioxide, and fungus
  4. nutrients, oxygen, warmth, and carbon dioxide
Grade 5 Botany
Pollination can occur in a single plant or between two plants.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 5 Botany
Why are carnivorous plants able to live in poor soil or nitrogen-poor swampy areas?
  1. They can absorb the nutrients they need directly from the air.
  2. They do not need all the nutrients that other plants do.
  3. They can get the nutrients they need from the insects and small animals they digest.
  4. They have really long roots that go deep to get the nutrients they need.
Grade 5 Botany
What vegetable grows underground and is a tuberous root?
  1. potato
  2. ginger
  3. carrot
  4. all of the above
Grade 5 Botany
What is the outside layer of flat cells in a plant leaf?
  1. cellulose
  2. vessel tissue
  3. epidermis
  4. photosynthesis
Grade 5 Botany
In flowering plants, flowers are needed for fertilization.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 5 Botany
Some plants have roots that grow above ground.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 5 Botany
What three things are true about a moss? (Select all that apply.)
  1. It is a nonvascular plant.
  2. It requires lots of water.
  3. It makes seeds.
  4. It makes spores.
  5. It has tubes.
Grade 5 Botany
What is an example of a plant with fibrous roots?
  1. carrot
  2. beet
  3. tree
Grade 5 Botany
Pollen is produced in the pistil of the flower.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 5 Botany
A pine tree is a type of gymnosperm.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 5 Botany
A plant in the desert would most likely have which root system?
  1. small taproot with long root hairs
  2. small taproot with short root hairs
  3. large root system, close to the surface
  4. large root system, deep beneath the surface
Grade 5 Botany
The crown of a tree is the
  1. branches.
  2. leaves.
  3. branches and leaves.
  4. trunk.
Grade 5 Botany
Needles help conifers by
  1. attracting and capturing insects to obtain nutrients.
  2. helping the plant conserve water.
  3. attracting insects for pollination.
  4. protecting plants with their sharp, pointed structures.
Grade 5 Botany
                plants are those that lose all their leaves at the same time every year.
  1. Flowering
  2. Coniferous
  3. Deciduous
  4. Carnivorous
Grade 5 Botany
What role do roots play in germination?
  1. They absorb sunlight.
  2. They pull the seed deep into the soil.
  3. They absorb water and bring it up to the leaves.
  4. All of the above
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