Science Assessment ~ Topics ~ Matter and Energy in Living Systems ~ Misconception MEM082

Plants make sugars from minerals (Tamir, 1989) or minerals and water (AAAS pilot data 2006).

Items that test for misconception MEM082 in this project (THSB) and key idea (Plants make their own food in the f…)
Item ID Number	Item Description	How Often the Misconception was Chosen	Select This Item for My Item Bank
ME031003	A growing broccoli head gets bigger by taking in molecules, using them to make glucose, and using the glucose to make larger molecules that become part of the plant’s body.	31%

Items that test for misconception MEM082 in this project (THSB) and other key ideas
ME032002	The minerals plants take in from the soil make up a very small amount of the new mass of the growing plant.	51%