Gymnosperms
These plants produce seeds in cones instead of flowers.
What are gymnosperms?
The part of the tree that carries water from roots to leaves.
What is a trunk?
These plants have tubes to carry water but do not produce seeds.
What are seedless vascular plants?
These plants do not have tubes to move water.
What are nonvascular plants?
The study of fungi is called this.
What is mycology?
This type of tree is a common gymnosperm that keeps its needles year-round.
What is a pine tree, or an evergreen tree?
These green parts of a tree make food using sunlight.
What are leaves?
A common example of this type of plant found in forests.
What are ferns?
A common nonvascular plant that grows in damp places.
What is moss?
These organisms include mushrooms, molds, and yeast.
What is fungi?
Gymnosperms do not produce this colorful plant structure.
What are flowers?
This process allows trees to make their own food.
What is photosynthesis?
Instead of seeds, these plants reproduce using these tiny structures.
What are spores?
Because they lack vascular tissue, these plants stay this size.
What is small/low-growing?
Fungi get food by breaking down this type of material.
What is dead or decaying matter?
The word “gymnosperm” means this, referring to their seeds.
What is "naked seeds?"
This layer just under the bark transports nutrients throughout the tree.
What is the phloem, or cambium?
These tube-like structures transport water and nutrients.
What are vascular tissues (xylem and phloem)?
Nonvascular plants absorb water directly through this outer surface.
What are their leaves or cell surfaces?
The underground network of a fungus is called this.
What is mycelium?
These structures on gymnosperms hold and protect the seeds.
What are cones?
Trees that lose their leaves in the fall are called this.
What are deciduous trees?
This ancient type of seedless vascular plant grew during the time of dinosaurs.
What are horsetails or club mosses?
These plants rely on this natural process to reproduce, often needing water.
What is spore reproduction (or water-assisted reproduction)?
Unlike plants, fungi do not make their own food because they lack this.
What is chlorophyll?