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Characteristics of Plants

Nonvascular Seedless

Plants

Vascular Seedless

Plants

Characteristics of Seed Plants

Gymnosperm &

Angiosperms

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Describe the plant feature scientists use to classify plants into two groups.

Seed or Seedless

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What does all plants are producers mean?

All plants make their own food

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How are the plant kingdom and animal kingdom divided into groups?

Plant – divisionsAnimal - phyla

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Compare the structures that vascular and nonvascular

plants use to get food.

They both get it from photosynthesisin their chloroplasts.

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Nonvascular seedless Plants are sometimes

called___________________.

Bryophytes

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Long, hornlike reproductive structures

called hornworts produce ____________________.

Spores

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Explain the root structure of a nonvascular seedless

plant.

Don’t have roots because of vascular tissue. Anchored by rhizoids.

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The ability of mosses to retain large amounts of water makes

peat moss a useful additive for __________________

____________.

Potting Soil

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Vascular plants contain tubelike structures that

transport water and nutrients and are usually

______________ than nonvascular plants.

Larger

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What makes up most of a fern?

Fronds

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Club moss spores make a fine powder that is

________________________.

Flammable

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Horsetail stems are hollow and contain silica that

was often used for what?

Scrubbing pots

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How are organisms dependent on seed

plants?

Food, building materials, and medicines

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Why do seed plants grow larger than bryophytes?

Seed plants have vascular tissue that canspread nutrients faster than diffusion.

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Name some seed plants that are used as food.

Corn, beans, peanuts, peas

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What 4 features do all seed plants have in

common?

Roots, stems, leaves, and vascular tissue

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In gymnosperms, seeds are produced in

_________________________.

A cone

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What are the two terms that only apply to

angiosperms?

Fruit and flowers

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What do gymnosperms and angiosperms have in

common?

Leaves, stems, and seeds

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Explain how perennials adapt to cold winter

climates.

They die off and stored food in the rootsstarts new growth in spring.

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Describe an adaptation that enables a plant to live on land.