Vascular/Nonvascular
Plant classification based on how they transport water.
What is vascular or nonvascular?
A leafy branch of a fern.
What is a frond?
The first root that emerges from a seed.
What is a primary root?
Plants that grow, flower, produce seeds, and die in one growing season.
What are annuals?
Herbaceous plants have this type of stem.
What is soft and green?
One of the following is NOT vascular: liverwort, club moss, horsetail, or ginkgo.
What is liverwort?
A sticky substance that protects a pine tree from diseases and insects when a branch is broken.
What is resin?
Many thin roots that spread out in all directions.
What are fibrous roots?
Plants that produce leaves in the first season and then flower, produce seeds, and die in the second season - like carrots.
What are biennials?
This type of root grows straight down into the soil.
What is a taproot?
This vascular plant has tall, hollow, jointed stems.
What are horsetails?
A tightly coiled developing frond.
What is a fiddlehead?
Ferns and horsetails grow from underground stems called ____.
What are rhizomes?
Plants that can live for three or more years, such as blueberry bushes.
What are perennials?
Cycads, ginkgoes, gnetophytes, and conifers are all classifications of this type of vascular, seed-bearing plants.
What are gymnosperms?
Tubes that carry water and minerals from the roots to the top of the plant.
What are xylem tubes?
The tiny seed leaves of the embryo.
What are cotyledon?
What are angiosperms have flowers and their seed are protected inside fruit, whereas gymnosperms do not have flowers and their seeds are usually produced inside cones?
The reason trees can grow wider each year.
What is cambium cells produce more xylem and phloem?
Characteristics of monocots.
What are petals of 3 or 6, parallel veins, fibrous roots, 1 cotyledon, and scattered bundles of vascular tissue?
Tubes that carry sugars and food throughout the plant.
What are phloem tubes?
Rootlike structures found on mosses and liverworts.
What are rhizoids?
The reason plants such as mosses and ferns in a tropical rainforest grow larger than similar plants in Canada.
What are plants need readily accessible water which is plentiful in the rainforest and Canada is a very cold environment - limiting the growing season, whereas, a warm tropical rainforest would allow year-round growth?
What looking at a tree's rings can tell you.
What are how old the tree is and how much water it received each year?
Characteristics of dicots.
What are petals of 4 or 5, branching veins, taproot, 2 cotyledons, bundle of vascular tissue in a circle.