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Fiddleheads
What are tightly coiled fronds (leafy branches of a fern)?
Herbaceous
What is having soft green flexible, stems?
Aerial root
What are roots that never touch the ground?
Annual
What is a plant that completes its entire life cycle in one year?
evergreen
What is a term that means a plant does not lose its leaves; it enables it to make its own food all year long?
Fronds
What are the leafy branches of a fern?
Angiosperm
What is a vascular plant that produces flowers and fruits protects the seeds?
taproot
What is a root that continues to grow straight down?
Biennial
What plants can live for 2 years and produces leaves the first year and flowers the second year?
Xylem
What are tubes that carry water and minerals from the roots to the top of the plant
the seed
What contains the embryo of a new plant?
Gymnosperm
What has no flowers, and the seeds and protected by cones?
Fibrous root
What is a thin root that grows out in all directions when the primary root stops growing?
Perennial
What plants can live for 3 or more years?
Phloem
What are tubes that carry sugars and food throughout the plant?
resin
What protects a broken pine branch from disease and insects?
Gymnosperms and Angiosperms
What are two types of seed-bearing plants?
Rhizomes
What is an underground stem (vascular)?
Seed-bearing and seedless
What are two types of vascular plants?
Cambium
What is a layer of cells between the xylem and phloem that reproduces to make more xylem and phloem, causing a tree to grow wider each year?
Cotyledon
Where are the seed leaves that contain food for the new plant?
1) provide support 2) transport water, food, and nutrients
What are two important jobs of the stem?
Rhizoids
What is a root-like structure to anchor a moss plant or liverwort (nonvascular)?
1) Strengthen and support the plant; 2) transports water and food to all parts of the plant; 3) enables the plant to grow larger.
What are the three ways vascular systems benefit plants?
1) the age of the tree, 2) the health of the tree, and 3) the climate
What are the three things you can learn about a tree by looking at its rings?