Take Our Holiday Train Show Plant Parts Quiz
Posted in Exhibitions, Holiday Train Show on January 5 2010, by Plant Talk
If you’ve read our informative signs at the Holiday Train Show or have absorbed our wonderful show-related blog posts, Web content, or media coverage, you know by now that the New York landmark replicas in the show are made of plant parts and fungi.
But do you know what each does when it’s alive, before it becomes an architectural element such as a roof shingle, window, or column on the fantastic buildings and bridges?
Take our quiz and match each plant part and fungus to its botanical role. (You can peek at the signs for hints on your visit to the Holiday Train Show this final week). Let us know how many you got right!
| 1. Bark | A. moves water and nutrients from roots to leaves |
| 2. Cone | B. holds and protects the seeds of flowering plants |
| 3. Fruit | C. holds the seeds of plants that don’t flower |
| 4. Fungus | D. protects the twigs, branches, and trunk |
| 5. Leaf | E. consumes other organisms, living or dead |
| 6. Twig | F. where plants make and store food |
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Answers: 1. D; 2. C; 3. B; 4. E.; 5. F; 6. A
