Plant Tissues - Assignment

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APEEJAY SCHOOL PITAMPURA

CLASS IX

PLANT TISSUES

I. Fill in the blanks:

(a) Xylem transports water and ____________ from soil.


(b) ______________ have guard cells.
(c) Cells of cork contain a chemical called ____________.
(d) Husk of coconut is made of ______________ tissue.
(e) ____________ and ___________ are both conducting tissues.

II. Give one word for the following:


(a) Identify the type of simple permanent tissue whose cells are dead and cell walls are
thickened due to lignin.
(b) Tuna observed a permanent slide of a plant tissue with thin walled cells, loosely packed
with large intercellular spaces. Identify the tissue.
(c) Which tissue is responsible for the increase in the girth of the stem?
(d) Which tissue is responsible for the transportation of food in plants?
(e) I am complex sugar found in plants, responsible for hardening of sclerenchyma. Who am
I?

III. Give reasons for the following:


(a) Aquatic plant can float on water.
(b) Intercellular spaces are absent in sclerenchyma tissue.
(c) Branches of tree move and bend freely in high wind velocity.
(d) It is difficult to pull out the husk of a coconut.

IV. Answer the following in brief:


(a) How does epidermis help desert plants?
(b) Name the components of phloem. Which of them are living? What is the function
performed by phloem tissue?
(c) List the function of cork.
(d) Differentiate between complex and simple permanent tissue.
(e) Define differentiation

V. Give a flow chart for classification of plant tissues.


VI. Draw a well labelled diagram to show location of meristematic tissues in plant body.
VII. Give the functions of different types of meristematic tissues.
VII. Draw diagrams – both transverse section as well as longitudinal section for the
following simple permanent plant tissues:
1. Parenchyma 2. Collenchyma 3. Scelerenchyma

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