Vascular/NonVascular 1
A leafy branch of a fern.
What is a frond?
A type of plant that has only one growing season.
What is an annual?
This is the way you can tell how old a tree is and how much water it received.
What is by looking at its rings?
A tightly coiled developing frond.
What is a fiddlehead?
The first root that emerges from a seed.
What is a primary root?
This type of root grows straight down into the soil.
What is a taproot?
Tubes that carry water and minerals from the roots to the top of the plant.
Tubes that carry sugars and food throughout the plant.
What is phloem?
The small, rootlike structures that mosses and liverworts have.
What are rhizoids?
This type of angiosperm has two cotyledons, vascular tissue arranged in a circle, and has leaves with branching veins.
What are dicots?
A sticky substance that protects a pine tree from diseases and insects when a branch is broken.
What is resin?
What is vascular and nonvascular?
The underground stems horsetails and ferns grow from.
What are rhizomes?
This kind of stem is soft and green.
What are herbaceous stems?
This is a vascular plant that has tall, hollow, jointed stems.
What is a horsetail?
Cycads, ginkgoes, gnetophytes, and conifers are all this type of plant.
What are gymnosperms?
A type of plant that grows back year after year.
What are perennials?
Carrots are this type of plant because they need two growing seasons to fully develop.
This angiosperm has fibrous roots, one cotyledon, and flowers with petals in groups of 3 or 6.
What is a monocot?
The tiny seed leaves of the embryo.
What is a cotyledon?