What is that?
Scientists separate plants into 2 groups based on how they transport water, what are these 2 groups?
Vascular and Non-vascular
has 2 cotyledons
Diocots
Ferns and horsetails grow from underground stems called___
rhizomes
You can tell how old a tree is and how much water it received each year by looking at its ____
tree rings
tubes that carry sugars and food throughout the plant, starting at the leaves.
phloem
Which is not a vascular plant:
liverwort, club moss, horsetail, ginkgo
liverwort
Has leaves with parallel veins
monocot
Ms. Abbot enjoys having different flowers in her yard each year. She should choose _____ flowers, plants that live for only one growing season.
annual
roots that are thick and grow straight down into the soil
taproot
tubes that carry water and minerals from the roots to the top of the plant
xylem
Vascular plants with tall, hallow, jointed stems
horsetails
tree rings are evidence that trees are
dicots
Maria has picked blueberries from the same bush on her grandpa's farm for the past five years. A blueberry bush is an example of a _____ plant (based on growing seasons)
perennial
thin, string-like roots that spread out near the surface are called ___.
fibrous roots
the tiny seed leaves of the embryo.
cotyledon
Mosses and liverworts have small, rootlike structures called ____.
rhizoids
Grass
monocot
last summer John did not pull all the carrots in his garden. This year he noticed that those carrots grew flowers and produced seeds. This happened because carrots are a(n) ____ plant. (referring to growing seasons)
biennial
the first root that emerges from a seed is called a ___ root
primary
leafy branch of a fern
frond
herbaceous
Has a flower with 16 petals
A lumberjack is cutting down a pine tree and gets covered in a sticky substance that protects the tree from diseases and insects when a branch is broken.
resin (not sap)
Why would plants such as mosses and ferns in a tropical rainforest grow larger than similar plants in Canada?
Because these plants are nonvascular, they are very dependent on easily accessible water. Tropical rainforests have an abundance of water.
what are the two main differences between angiosperms and gymnosperms?
angiosperms have flowers and seeds are protected inside fruit.
gymnosperms do not have flowers and seeds develop inside cones, protected only by the seed coat.