Vocab 1
What is the part of soil made by dead plants and animals?
Humus
Any nonflowering seed plant is a(n) ____
Gymnosperm
An angiosperm that has cotyledons is called a(n) ____
Dicot
Vascular tissue forms ____ that transport food and water
a) tubes
b) leaves
c) embryos
a) tubes
What do nonvascular plants NOT have?
Vascular tissue
The large feathery leaf of a fern is a called a(n) ____
Frond
The seeds of a(n) ____ usually surrounded by fruit
Angiosperm
A plant that has tissue that forms tubes is called a(n) ____
Vascular
All angiosperms have ____
a) two cotyledon
b) flowers
c) cones
b) flowers
Give two examples of plants that are monocots
Grasses, corn, wheat, rice, lillies, and orchids
A(n) ____ has a protective coat around a plant embryo
Seed
A(n) ____ is a cone bearing gymnosperm
Conifer
A seed contains stored food and a(n) ____
Embryo
Most conifers have ____ that are green all year round
a) flowers
b) seeds
c) needle shaped leaves
c) needle shaped leaves
Give two examples of plants that are dicots
Beans, oak trees, and ash trees
Mosses are examples of _____
Nonvascular plants
A(n) ____ is a seedless, vascular plant
Fern
Gymnosperms seeds are produced inside a ____
Cone
Plants that must live in moist, shady places are ____
a) mosses
b) conifers
c) gymosperms
a) mosses
Seeds in gymnosperms are not enclosed in a _____
a) embryo
b) fruit
c) leaf
b) fruit
The leaves of ____ have parallel veins
Monocots
____ are reproductive cells of ferns and mosses
Spores
Mosses get water through rootlike threads called ____
rhizoids
What groups of plants do not have seeds?
a) ferns
b) mosses
c) both ferns and mosses
c) both ferns and mosses
What are the three main groups of plants?
seed plants, ferns, and mosses