True or False: You can tell how old a tree is and how much water it has received by looking at its rings.
True
Give an example of a non-vascular plant
Moss/ liverworts
What is a leafy branch of a fern?
Frond
Monocot or Dicot? Has flowers with petals in groups or 3 or 6.
Monocot
Tubes that carry sugars and food throughout the plant
phloem
Plants that grow for only one season are...
annual
Monocot or Dicot? Has two cotyledons
Dicot
When plants are classified by how they transport water, scientists group them as ...
Vascular and non-vascular
True or False: Herbaceous plants have hard, woody stems
False
The tiny seed leaves of the embryo
cotyledon
A plant that lasts three or more seasons is...
perennial
sticky substance that protects the pine tree from diseases and insects when a branch gets broken
resin
True or False: Trees grow wider because the cambium cells produce more xylem and phloem
True
Tubes that carry water and minerals from the root to the top of the plant
Xylem
Monocot or Dicot? Has vascular tissue arranged in a circle
Dicot
Which vascular plant has tall, hollow, jointed stems?
Horsetails
Monocot or Dicot? Has one cotyledon
Monocot
True or False: Gymnosperms include cycads, ginkgoes, gnetophytes, and conifers
True
True or False: Fibrous roots grow straight down into the soil
False
The first root that emerges from a seed is called...
primary root
Ferns and horsetails form underground stems called...
rhizomes
Mosses and liverworts have small root like structures called...
rhizoids
Monocot or Dicot? Has fibrous roots
Monocot
a tightly coiled developing frond
Fiddlehead
A plant that grows in two seasons is...
biennial
Monocot or Dicot? Has leaves with branching veins
Dicot
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.
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