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The Kingdom Plantae
Directions: You will have 7 minutes at each station to read the material provided and
answer the following questions on a separate paper. Ensure you put your name, date
and block on your papers.
1. Major Components of the Plant Kingdom
a) What kind of cells will you find in all plants?
Eukaryotic
b) How do plants get energy (food)?
Photosynthesis - Autotrophic
c) Look at the evolutionary tree, which came first, plants that produce spores or
plants that produce seeds?
Spores
d) The Plant Kingdom can be divided into two types or plants, what are they called?
Vascular and Non Vascular
2. Vascular and Non Vascular Plants
a) What are the specialized cells found in vascular plants?
Xylem and Phloem
b) What are the two divisions of vascular plants?
Non seed and Seed
c) Give an example of each kind of vascular plant.
Non seed – Fern
Seed – Apple Tree
d) What makes a plant non vascular?
No Xylem or Phloem
e) What are the two types of non vascular plants?
Marine and Freshwater Algae
Non Vascular Land Plants
f) Given an example of each type of non vascular plants.
Marine and Freshwater Algae – Seaweeds
Non Vascular Land Plants - Mosses
3. Seed Producing Vascular Plants
a) Members of the plant kingdom that produce seed bearing and pollen bearing
cones represent what category of plants?
Gymnosperms
b) Most of the world’s crops fit into which category of seed producing plants?
Angiosperms
c) Is grass an angiosperm or gymnosperm?
Angiosperm
d) What is one difference between monocots and dicots? Are these plants
gymnosperms or angiosperms?
The number of cotyledons, veins in the leaves, number of petals on the flower, or
arrangement of the vascular bundles
Corn – monocot
Pea - dicot
4. Types of Leaves
a) What is the purpose of a leaf?
Photosynthesis and storage of food
b) What are the two types of leaves? Describe how you would tell one type from
another by looking at a plant.
Simple leaf, compound leaf. A simple leaf is one full structure, like a maple leaf, a
compound leaf is divided into many parts, like a fern.
c) Describe the leaf arrangement seen in the pictures below. Are they alternate,
opposite, or whorled?
Alternate
Whorled
Opposite
5. Reproduction Strategies
a) Give some examples of pollinators.
Wind, Animals
b) Why are most plants animal-pollinated rather than wind? To answer this question
think about which method of applying a powder is more accurate, blowing it in the
air, or rubbing it directly on.
Accuracy, wasted resources
c) What are some methods plants use to attract pollinators?
Colour, scent, reward, location, time of bloom
6. Seeds
a) What is the purpose of a seed?
To protect the embryo of the new plant and provide it with food
b) Name three methods of seed dispersal and give examples of seeds that spread
in that manner that you can think of.
Gravity – pine cones falling from a tree
Animals – fruit
Wind - dandelions
7. Flowers
a) What is the function of flowers for a plant?
The site of reproduction, attract pollinators
b) What is the name (and parts) or the male and female reproductive structures
found within a flower? Sketch the flower in front of you and label those structures.
Male – Stamen = Anther and Filament
Female – Carpel = Stigma, style and ovary
c) Where do you find pollen on a flower?
Stamen (anther)
8. Root Systems
a) What is the purpose of the root?
Support, food, water and minerals
b) Explain how the different sections of cells in a root work together for the root to
get longer.
Cell divides in the division area, then as the root grows these cells elongate,
pushing the root tip, which has its own lubrication through the ground