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This type of plant has vessels for transporting nutrients throughout the plant
Vascular
The basic needs of plants include:
*You MUST include them all for the 100 points!
Soil, water, sun, air space, and the correct temperature
The separation of a parent plant into parts that develop into whole new plants.
Fragmentation
A plant that has leaves rhizomes and stems that reproduce by spores is a __________________.
Fern
The very center of a woody stem
Pith
List the three different types of roots.
Taproots, lateral roots, and fibrous roots
A growing plant's weight is ______% - _______%
80%- 90%
True or False: Mosses are small because they lack vascular tissues.
True
Ferns have these horizontal underground stems.
Rhizomes
Specialized plant tissue that transports water and minerals through the plant
Xylem
The types of plants that do not produce seeds have roots called __________________
Rhizomes
This is a homonym of a popular Middle Eastern delicacy.
Humus
Does the moss cycle include both sexual and asexual reproduction?
Yes
A young frond
Fiddlehead
Name the outer layer of a root
Epidermis
These two processes move water and nutrients through a nonvascular type of plant.
Osmosis and Diffusion
True or False: Ferns can flourish in hot, dry climates.
False. Ferns need moisture to reproduce
Name the least common nonvascular plant.
Hornworts
AKA puzzle plant
Horsetail
The layer of the woody stem that produces new xylem & phloem.
Cambium
This type of plant has seta, can reproduce sexually or asexually and contains no real roots
A Moss
This helps plants slow down water loss from leaf surfaces.
A waxy coating
Moss spore capsules break open in this type of weather.
Dry weather
Once used to coat pills and make fireworks that gave off a yellowish glow.
Club mosses
A root system is made up of roots; a shoot system is made up of _______________ and _______________
Stems and leaves