Biology Plant Web Quest

Name: _____________________________ Period: ________ Date: ____________

A. Go to https://biologydictionary.net/vascular-plant/ and answer the following question:

a. Where are the two networks of tubes in vascular plants located?

b. What do the tubes transport?

c. Where do water and nutrients enter the plant?

d. How do water and nutrients get to the stems?

e. Where do the water and nutrients go from there?

f. What is transpiration?

g. What do food tubes do?

B. Go to https://biology4children.com/lesson-xylem-and-phloem.html and answer the following questions.

a. These food and water tubes are the “transportation” system in plants. What are they called?

b. Trees and vascular plants have a top and bottom. What does the top and bottom consist of and what
are their functions?

c. Draw a diagram showing the movement of water, nutrients and sugar in a plant.
C. Go to: https://www.mbgnet.net/bioplants/parts.html and answer the following questions.
a. Label the different organs in each system using the following word bank:
Root Stem (ground tissue) Leaves

Flower Fruit Seed

D. Go to http://urbanext.illinois.edu/gpe/case1/c1facts2a.html.

Select Case 1. Identify the function of the different organs listed in the following table and answer the
following questions:
Plant Organ Function

Root

Stem

Leaves

Flower

Fruit

Seed
 d. All plants have 3 main parts (the first three on the website) – what are they?

e. What are the 2 main jobs of the roots?

f. What are the 2 main jobs of the stem?

g. Leaves are the site of what main process?

h. How does the carbon dioxide that is needed enter the plant?

i. How does the water that is needed enter the plant?

j. Match the clue with the part of the plant(stem, leaves, roots, flower, fruit, seed):
i. Carries water and food through the plant. _____________

ii. Carries and protects the seed. ______________

iii. Allows the plant to reproduce. _______________

iv. Helps the plant to produce seeds. ______________

v. Made of blade and petiole. ______________ vi. Take up nutrients and water.

Section 2: TRANSPIRATION WEBQUEST

Go to https://passel2.unl.edu/view/lesson/c242ac4fbaaf/3 and answer the following questions:

READ ROOT DETAIL

1. How does the water enter the root

2. Describe the three paths water can take?

3. How does water enter the xylem? Label Me!

READ STOMATA DETAIL

1. What are primary functions of the stomates?

2. What environmental factors control the stomates?

3. What are guard cells?

a. What controls the shape of the guard cells?

4. Explain how the stomates open and close

READ XYLEM DETAIL

1. What is xylem, and what does it transport?

READ PLANT PARAMETERS

1. What is the purpose of the Cuticle?

a. What happens to the plant if you increase it?

b. Decrease it?

READ ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS

2. What is Humidity?

a. How does it affect transpiration rates?

b. What is the result of increasing the relative humidity?

c. Decreasing it?

3. Why does Temperature affect transpiration rates?

a. Explain what happens when you increase the temperature.

b. What is the result of decreasing the temperature?

 4. What affect does Light have on the stomata?

a. How does it affect transpiration rates?

b. Is light required for Transpiration? Why or why not?

c. What wavelengths of light trigger the stomata?

5. What affect does the Wind have on transpiration rates?

a. Why does it change the rate of transpiration

Section 3: Plant Tissue

Go to: http://www.biologydiscussion.com/plants/3-types-of-plant-tissue-system-and-their-function-
withdiagram/2517

Read the information and answer the following questions:

1. What are the three types of plant tissue?
a.
b.
c.
2. The dermal tissue system consists of epidermis and periderm. Provide a description and the functions
for each type of tissue.
a. Epidermis

b. Periderm functions

3. What are the primary functions of the ground tissue system?

4. What are the functions of the parenchyma cells?

5. The vascular tissue is composed of the ____________ and the ____________.

6. Areas within a plant that are capable of growth via _________ are called ___________. Plants undergo
two types of growth, ___________ and/or _________ growth. In primary growth, plant stems and roots
____________ by cell enlargement as opposed to new cell production. Primary growth occurs in areas
called ____________ meristems. This type of growth allows plants to increase in length and to extend
roots deeper into the soil. All plants undergo _____________ growth. Plants that undergo secondary
growth, such as trees, have _____________ meristems that produce new cells. These new cells increase
the ______________ of stems and roots. Lateral meristems consist of the ____________ cambium and
the _________ cambium. It is the _____________ cambium that is responsible for producing
________ and _______ cells. The ________ cambium is formed in mature plants and yields bark.