Group 1
What is a root that generally grows straight down?
Taproot
These look like small evergreen trees.
Club Mosses
tubes that carry water and minerals from the roots to the top of the plant
xylem
Tubes that carry sugars and food throughout the plant
phloem
Has 2 cotyledons
Dicot
What is a plant's system that transports water and nutrients throughout the plant?
Vascular System
What is the main difference in classification between a moss and a fern?
A moss is a nonvascular plant, and a fern in a vascular plant.
Biennials
What do you call angiosperms that can live for 3 or more years?
Perennials
has leaves with branching veins
Dicot
What plant group is mostly tall, hollow, jointed stems?
Horsetails
What is a rhizome?
underground stems
Which plant is not a vascular plant?
A. Club Moss
B. Horsetail
C. Ginkgo
D. Liverwort
D. Liverwort
What vascular group of plants produce flowers and seeds inside fruit?
Angiosperms
Has fibrous roots
Monocot
What plant group has fiddleheads?
thin, rootlike structures
primary root
What is the sticky substance that protects a tree from diseases and insect?
has flowers with petals in groups of 3 or 6
What plant group has either flat, platelike leaves OR liver-shaped leaves?
Liverworts
What plant group produces their seeds in cones?
gymnosperms
What are plants called that live for only one growing season?
annual
When plants are classified by how they transport water, scientists group them as ________ or _____________.
vascular or nonvascular
Has vascular tissue arranged in a circle
Dicot