Roots, Shoots and Leaves

What this quiz asks

• In which part of a typical plant does most photosynthesis take place?
• Young plants of this kind turn their flower heads during the day to follow what?
• Which part of a flower produces pollen?
• Cacti store water in their thick, fleshy stems.
• How can you tell the age of a tree that has been cut down?
• How are the seeds of a dandelion mainly spread?
• Bamboo is a type of grass.
• What are the tiny pores, mostly on the underside of leaves, that let gases in and out?
• Do plants also take in oxygen for respiration, just as animals do?
• Select ALL of these trees that are conifers.
• What is the loss of water vapour from a plant, mostly through its leaves, called?
• Why does the Venus flytrap catch and digest insects?
• What are plants that live for more than two years, such as trees and many shrubs, called?
• Order these stages in the life of a flowering plant, from first to last.
• Which tree of Africa and Madagascar, with a massive water-storing trunk, is nicknamed the 'upside-down tree'?
• In what year did the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, a backup store for the world's crop seeds, open in the Arctic?
• Which plant, a parasite with no leaves of its own, produces the largest single flower in the world?
• Select ALL of these plants that are pollinated mainly by the wind.
• The coco de mer palm, native to the Seychelles, is famous for producing the world's largest what?
• In the 1630s, bulbs of which flower set off a buying frenzy in the Dutch Republic, with rare ones fetching the price of a house?