Photosynthesis & Plant Basics
This process allows plants to make food using sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide.
What is photosynthesis?
Non-vascular plants reproduce using these tiny cells instead of seeds.
What are spores?
These reproductive structures contain a young plant and stored food.
What are seeds?
Pine trees are an example of this type of seed-producing plant.
What is a gymnosperm?
Plants provide this gas for animals and humans to breathe.
What is oxygen?
The green pigment in plant cells that absorbs sunlight.
What is chlorophyll?
Give one example of a vascular plant and one example of a non-vascular plant.
Answers may vary (Mr. L will decide what is correct)
Plants like mosses and liverworts reproduce using these.
What are spores?
Flowers and fruit are produced by this type of seed-producing plant.
What is an angiosperm?
Plants are important for this type of web that shows who eats whom.
What is a food web?
These are tube-like tissues that carry water and nutrients through plants.
What are vascular tissue?
Non-vascular plants are usually found in this type of environment.
What are damp or shaded environments? (Or answer that uses similar vocabulary)
Seeds help plants survive in different ______.
What are environments?
This is the main difference between angiosperms and gymnosperms.
What is that angiosperms produce flowers and fruits, while gymnosperms produce cones?
Alternative Answer: Gymnosperms have naked seeds, while angiosperm seeds are protected
Besides food and oxygen, plants provide these to animals and humans.
What are habitats or shelter?
These plants do not have tube-like tissues and must absorb water directly from their environment.
What are non-vascular plants?
Vascular plants can grow taller than non-vascular plants because of these structures.
What are xylem and phloem?
Plants that produce seeds inside a flower or fruit are called this.
What are angiosperms?
Name two examples of gymnosperms.
answers may vary
Describe one way a scientist could identify a new plant as vascular or non-vascular.
What is looking for xylem/phloem or tube-like tissues?
Types of Seeds it has
Height of the plant
The two main types of vascular tissues; one carries water, the other carries sugars.
What are xylem and phloem?
This type of plant classification looks at both water transport and reproduction.
What is plant group classification?
Plants that produce seeds in cones are called this.
What are gymnosperms?
Name two examples of angiosperms.
answers may vary
Name one reason seeds are an advantage for plant survival in different environments.
What is that seeds can protect the embryo and provide stored food?