Plant Types
Plants that have tubelike structures that transport water from the roots to the stems and leaves.
What is a vascular plant?
Products of this type of plant include medicines, food, and clothing
What are angiosperms?
Nicknames for monocotyledons and dicotyledons.
What are monocots and dicots?
Tubes that carry sugar and food throughout the plant.
What is a phloem?
The part of a root that grows straight down into the soil and may have secondary roots branching off it.
What is a taproot?
Plants that do not have tubelike structures that transport water from the roots to the stems and leaves.
What is a nonvascular plant?
Vascular plants that have flowers, and their seeds are protected inside a fruit.
What are angiosperms?
The tiny seed leaves of a plant embryo
What is a cotyledon?
Groups of xylem and phloem, with the xylem on the inside and the phloem on the outside.
What is a vascular bundle?
Thin roots that spread out in all directions
What is a fibrous root?
The coiled-up frond of a fern
What is a fiddlehead?
An angiosperm that lives for only one growing season
What is an annual?
Angiosperms with two cotyledons in their seeds.
What is a dicotyledon?
Cells which divide and reproduce to make more xylem and phloem, allowing the tree to grow wider each year.
Roots that never touch the soil
What are aerial roots?
What are gymnosperms?
An angiosperm that needs two growing seasons to fully develop.
What is a biennial?
Angiosperms with one cotyledon in their seeds.
What is monocotyledon?
Stems which are soft and green, like the stems of most flowers and vegetables.
What is herbaceous?
The first root that emerges from a seed
What is a primary root?
The leafy branches of a fern
What is a frond?
An angiosperm that can live for three or more years.
What is a perennial?
A thin, root like structure on a moss.
What is a rhizoid?
Tubes that carry water and minerals from the roots to the top of the plant.
What is a xylem?
An underground stem
What is a rhizome?