Plant Characteristics
Seedless Plants
Seed Plants
Structures of Seed Plants
Vocab
100
Only found in plant cells and helps support and protect the cell.
What is a Cell Wall
100
These include mosses, liverworts, and hornworts.
What are Nonvascular plants?
100
The tiny structures in plants where sperm form.
What is pollen?
100
This is where roots are often found.
Where is underground?
100
A green pigment found in chloroplasts that captures energy from the sun.
What is chlorophyll?
200
Process of converting energy from sunlight to make food from carbon dioxide and water.
What is Photosynthesis?
200
This is how Nonvascular plants help create new environments.
What is decompose and create a thin layer of top soil?
200
These are the three major parts of a seed.
What is seed coating, stored food, and young plant.
200
These held support the plant and help transport nutrients from the roots to the leaves and reproductive structures.
What are stems?
200
Broad, flat, thin leaflike parts of a flower.
What are petals?
300
The part of a plant that helps protect it from drying out and losing water.
What is a cuticle?
300
This is why ferns, horsetails, and club mosses are much smaller than they used to be.
What is the climate is much dryer?
300
These a seed plants that do not produce flowers.
What are gymnosperms.
300
This is the main function of leaves.
What is to help make food for the plant?
300
The rounded base of a pistil that contains one or more ovules.
What is the ovary?
400
These types of plants do not have specialized tissue to transport water and nutrients throughout the plant.
What are Nonvascular plants?
400
This is how the remains of seedless vascular plants are used today.
What is coal and oil?
400
These are seed plants that produce flowers.
What are angiosperms?
400
This is the name for the female part of the flower.
What is the pistil?
400
Modified leaves that make up the outermost ring of a flower and protects the bud.
What are sepals?
500
What scientists believe plants share a common ancestor with.
What is Green Algae?
500
These are the two stages in a seedless plant's life cycle.
What is Gametophyte ans Sporophyte?
500
This is why angiosperms have flowers.
What is to attract pollinators to the flower in order to help with reproduction?
500
These are the three main functions of roots.
What is to absorb water and nutrients, hold plant in place, and store surplus food.
500
Vascular tissue that transports water and minerals through the plant.
What is the Xylem?
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