Science Assessment ~ Topics ~ Matter and Energy in Living Systems ~ Misconception MEM121

Minerals are food for plants (Horizon, n.d.; Vaz et al., 1997).

Items that test for misconception MEM121 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
ME039002	Most of the mass of wood comes from carbon dioxide the tree took in from the air.	68%
ME036003	To make its trunk, branches, and leaves, a tree makes glucose from carbon dioxide and water and then uses the glucose molecules to make carbohydrate polymers.	32%

Items that test for misconception MEM121 in this project (THSB) and other key ideas
ME061001	Plants use glucose to build larger molecules (polymers) that make body structures (and water molecules)	47%