When plants are classified by how they transport water, scientists group them as ...
Vascular and non-vascular
Monocot or Dicot? Has flowers with petals in groups or 3 or 6.
Monocot
a tightly coiled developing frond
Fiddlehead
A plant that lasts three or more seasons is...
perennial
Give an example of a non-vascular plant
Moss/ liverworts
Ferns and horsetails form underground stems called...
rhizomes
True or False: Fibrous roots grow straight down into the soil
False
Mosses and liverworts have small root like structures called...
rhizoids
What are the two main differences between angiosperms and gymnosperms?
Angiosperms have flowers and their seeds are protected by fruit. Gymnosperms don't have flowers and their seed is inside a cone, protected by a seed coat.
Monocot or Dicot? Has vascular tissue arranged in a circle
Dicot
Monocot or Dicot? Has leaves with branching veins
Dicot
True or False: Trees grow wider because the cambium cells produce more xylem and phloem
True
The first root that emerges from a seed is called...
primary root
sticky substance that protects the pine tree from diseases and insects when a branch gets broken
resin
True or False: Herbaceous plants have hard, woody stems
False
Monocot or Dicot? Has one cotyledon
Monocot
A plant that grows in two seasons is...
biennial
What is a leafy branch of a fern?
Frond
True or False: Gymnosperms include cycads, ginkgoes, gnetophytes, and conifers
True
Monocot or Dicot? Has fibrous roots
Monocot
Tubes that carry water and minerals from the root to the top of the plant
Xylem
Tubes that carry sugars and food throughout the plant
phloem
Plants that grow for only one season are...
annual
True or False: You can tell how old a tree is and how much water it has received by looking at its rings.
True
Monocot or Dicot? Has two cotyledons
Dicot
Which vascular plant has tall, hollow, jointed stems?
Horsetails
The tiny seed leaves of the embryo
cotyledon
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