Plant Classification
Plants are classified as vascular or nonvascular based on how they transport this.
What is water?
Nonvascular plants must absorb water through this.
What is leaves?
The leafy branch of a fern.
What is a frond?
An angiosperm that lives for only one growing season. They grow, flower, produce seeds, and die all in the same growing season.
What are annuals?
Tiny seed leaves of the embryo
What are cotyledons
The first root that emerges from a seed and for dicots usually continues to grow into the taproot.
What is a primary root?
These plants have tubelike structures that transport water from the roots to the stems and leaves.
What are vascular plants?
True or False
Most nonvascular plants do not grow very big or tall.
What is True?
What are angiosperms?
Plants that live for three or more years.
What is a perennial?
Tubes that carry water and minerals from the roots to the top of the plant.
What is the Xylem?
Roots that never touch the ground.
What are aerial roots?
These plants don't have roots and tissues for conducting water.
What are nonvascular plants?
Small, rootlike structures that mosses and liverworts have.
What are rhizoids?
Vascular plants that do not have flowers, and their seeds are usually produced inside cones.
What are gymnosperms?
Angiosperms that need two growing seasons to fully develop.
What is a biennial?
A tightly coiled developing frond.
What is a fiddlehead?
Tubes that carry sugars and food throughout the plant.
What is the phloem?
Cycads, ginkgoes, gnetophytes, and conifers
What are gymnosperms?
A nonvascular plant with over ten thousand species found all over the world. They can grow on rocks, in soil, and sometimes even on other plants, such as tree trunks.
What are mosses?
Underground stems that ferns and horsetails grow from.
What are rhizomes?
Have two cotyledons in thier seeds, vascular tissue is arranged in a circle, and has leaves with branching veins.
What are dicotyledons or dicots?
Stems that are soft and green like the stems of most flowers and vegetables.
Cells tucked in between the xylem and phloem that divide and reproduce to make more xylem and phloem allowing the tree to grow wider each year.
What are cambium cells?
What is a club moss?
More than eight thousand species of these have been identified, and named this because their leaves resemble the shape of a liver?
What are liverworts?
Vascular plants with tall, hollow, jointed stems.
What are horsetails?
Has one cotyledon in its seeds, has fibrous roots, and has flowers with petals in groups of 3 or 6.
What are monocotyledons or monocots?
A sticky substance that protects a pine tree from diseases and insects when a branch is broken.
What is resin?
Many thin roots that spread out in all directions after the primary root stops growing.
What are fibrous roots?