Class 10 Science Chapter 5 Practice Question Answers - Life Processes

Transportation in Plants

Fill in the blanks :

1. In plants food is transported through .................

2. In plants water is transported through .................

3. Water enter into the root hair from soil by .................

4. Transport of water and minerals is called .................

5. The water moving upward forms a column, which is maintained up to a certain height due to .................

6. Vascular tissues in plants are ................. and .................

7. During day period ............... and .............. help in the upward movement of sap from roots to leaves.

8. Transpiration mainly occurs through .................

9. Guttation takes place through .................

10. Translocation takes place through energy in the form of .................

11. Water enter into sieve tubes containing sugar by the process of .................

12. According to plants requirements, sugar is translocated from ................. osmotic pressure to ................. osmotic pressure areas.

 Match the columns :
Match the items of Column A with items of Column B.

Column A                     Column B 

1. Living part of xylem    (a) Sieve tube

2. Dead part of phloem   (b) Trachieds

3. Living part of phloem  (c) companian cell

4. Dead part of xylem      (d) Vessels

                                           (e) Phloem fibre

                                           (f) xylem parenchyma

                                           (g) phloem parenchyma

                                            (h) xylem fibre

 ANSWER KEY

Fill In The Bnalks : 

1. phloem  
2. xylem  
3. diffusion 
4. Ascent of sap 
5. root pressure

6. xylem, phloem  
7. cohesion force, transpiration pull 
8. Stomata

9. Hydathodes  10. ATP 11. Osmosis 12. Higher, lower

Match the following :
1(f), 2(e), 3(a, c, g), 4(b, d, h),