Vocab
Waxy layer on leaves and stems
What is the cuticle?
Plants are thought to have evolved from these
What is green algae?
Peat is the earliest form of this material
What is coal?
The main function of the leaves
What is to make food?
Flowering plants with two cotyledons in their seeds
What is dicot?
Small openings in a leaf's surface
What is stomata?
Plants with a tubelike system of vessels to transport water and nutrients throughout the plant
What are vascular plants?
The most abundant group of seedless vascular plants
What are ferns?
The main function of roots
What to absorb water?
The outer "skin" of a leaf
What is the epidermis?
Vascular plants with NO flowers and NO fruit that produce seeds on cones
What is gymnosperm?
Name given to the first plants to grow in a new environment
What are pioneer species?
Rootlike filaments that hold moss in place
What are rhizoids?
The main function of the stems
What is to distribute nutrients?
Seeds are protected in angiosperms with this material
What is fruit?
Cells that surround the stomata that open and close them
What are guard cells?
Vascular tissue that transports water throughout the plant
What is xylem?
Nonvascular lack this plant part
What are leaves, roots, or seeds?
The vascular tissue that transports food
What is phloem?
Tissue that produces new xylem and phloem
What is cambium?
Vascular plants with flowers that produce seeds in fruit
What are angiosperms?
Composes the cell wall
What is cellulose?
These are examples of seedless nonvascular plants and pioneer species
What are mosses, liverworts, and hornworts?
Layer of the leaf that contains the most chloroplasts
What is the palisade layer?
These are examples of vascular plants
What is just about any plant you can think of except moss, liverwort, and hornwort?