Nonvascular plants
These plants do not have tubelike structures to transport water
What are nonvascular plants?
The structures that transports food, water, and nutrients through the plant
What is the vascular tissue?
Plants that produce seeds in cones
What are gymnosperms?
These plants produce flowers and seed inside fruit
What are angiosperms?
The three parts of a plants vascular system
What are xylem, phloem, and cambium?
Nonvascular plants that have flat platelike leaves
What are liverworts?
group of vascular plants includes ferns, horsetails, and club mosses
What are seedless plants?
The easiest way to identify a conifer
What are leaf shape and type?
angiosperms can be classified by these growing seasons
What are annual, biennial, and perennial?
The tubes that carry water from roots to leaves
What is the xylem?
Thin rootlike structures
What are rhizoids?
The two groups of seedbearing vascular plants
What are gymnosperms and angiosperms?
The four main gymnosperms
What are cycads, ginkgoes, gnetophytes, and conifers?
The tiny seed leaves of a plant embryo
What are cotyledons?
Tubes that carry sugar and food throughout the plant
What is phloem?
Nonvascular plants absorb water through _____.
What are leaves?
Have leafy branches called fronds and reproduce with spores
What are ferns?
This large gymnosperm tree can be mistaken for an angiosperm
What is a gingko?
Have two cotyledons, circular vascular tissue, branching veins, and a taproot
What are dicots?
Roots that never touch soil
What are aerial roots?
What is the lack of a water transport system?
Most all are evergreen and they have needlelike leaves
What are conifers?
The tallest plant in North America
What is the redwood or giant sequoia?
Have one cotyledon, scattered bundles of vascular tissue, parallel veins, and fibrous roots
What are monocots?
Plants that have soft green stems and no woody tissue
What are herbaceous plants?