Plant Class 1
A group of vascular plants that do NOT make seeds.
Ferns
Flowering plants belong to this group.
Seed plants
An apricot tree and a rose bush are both in this plant group.
Flowering
True or False - Grass is not a plant.
False
Which plant parts do scientists use to classify plants?
All plant parts
True or false - plants are considered living things.
True
Scientists use this method or categorising plants to identify and study new species.
Classification
Why can't a tree be nonvascular?
They are too tall and nonvascular plants stay low to the ground.
Mushrooms, fungi, and mold are in this category, not plants.
Decomposers
A group of vascular plants that reproduce using spores.
Ferns
This type of plants produce seeds in cones.
Coniferous
This group of plants don't have tubes (stems), and must soak up water like sponges directly from the soil.
Nonvasular
This plant group has tubes to carry water from the roots to the leaves.
Vascular
This plant group's name is derived from the fact that they make seeds in their flowers.
Flowering plants
Since coniferous plants make seeds in their cones, they are often called this.
Nonflowering plants
A large group of living things that use sunlight to make their own food.
Plants
In an area with tulips, rose bushes, and pine trees, which are nonflowering plants?
Pine trees
If a plant doesn't make seeds or have flowers, what is it called?
Nonflowering plant
If a plant makes seeds in its large, pink flowers, what is it called?
Flowering plant
A group of usually flowering plants that make seeds in a flower or fruit.
Angiosperm
The process in which plants turn light and minerals into food.
Photosynthesis
This is another term for conifers or coniferous plants that have their seeds in cones.
Gymnosperms
These are what mosses and ferns reproduce with instead of seeds.
Spores
This is the chemical that makes plants green and is used in photosynthesis.
Chlorophyll
Evergreen trees belong to this plant group.
Coniferous