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CLEARVUE Plant Series
Plants: Seedless Plants
After Viewing
1. Why are plants and algae called producers?
2. From where does the energy that all organisms must have originate?
3. What are some fuels that come from plants?
4. Coal and oil were formed from plants that died millions of years ago. These materials are called ________ .
5. In what other way are photosynthetic organisms important to us?
6. How did the first plants originate?
7. For plants, what was the advantage of living on land?
8. Name the structures that anchor plants to the soil.
9. Where is most of a plant’s chlorophyll located?
10. What plant structure connects its leaves to its roots?
11. The ________ is the waxy, waterproof coating on a plant’s leaves and stems that prevents its cells from
drying out.
12. Plants have tiny openings, or pores, on their cuticles. Why are these pores important?
13. What does bryophyte mean?
14. How are bryophytes different from other plants?
15. What is the function of a vascular system?
16. How do bryophytes and other nonvascular plants obtain the water and minerals they need?
17. The groups of specialized cells that make up a plant are called ________ .
18. How do bryophytes stay anchored to the ground?
19. What is a generation?
20. Define alternation of generations.
21. _______ are the female gametes produced by a gametophyte.
22. _______ are the male gametes produced by a gametophyte.
23. In seedless plants, what must be present for a sperm to reach an egg? Why?
24. When a sperm joins with, or fertilizes, an egg, the resulting cell is the ______ .
25. The zygote of a moss plant grows to become a spore-producing plant, or a _______ .
26. By what process are the spores inside the capsule of a sporophyte produced?
27. Into what kind of plants do moss spores develop?
28. In what two ways are horsetails different from mosses?
29. Horsetails and ferns produce spores that grow to be tiny ________ .
30. What are the leaves of ferns called?
31. Where on most fern plants are the spores produced?
32. Trace the life cycle of a fern.
CLEARVUE Plant Series
Plants:Gymnosperms
After Viewing
1. What is the meaning of the word gymnosperm?
2. Why were these types of plants (gymnosperms) named naked seed?
3. Most gymnosperms produce seeds in structures called.
4. What are the three main parts of a seed?
5. The first gymnosperms looked like ferns and were called.
6. What are the four classes of gymnosperms?
7. What are gingkos commonly called?
8. Gingkos are deciduous trees. What does the word deciduous mean?
9. In what kind of climate are cycads found?
10. What are male sex cells called?
11. Female sex cells are called.
12. Where are gnetales found?
13. Name some of the kinds of conifers.
14. Conifers produce their sex cells in structures called.
15. What are male cones called?
16. Pollen grains develop from cells called.
17. How do the number of chromosomes in microspore mother cells and microspores differ?
18. By what type of cell reproduction are the chromosomes reduced to half?
19. How many cells result from meiosis?
20. Why are chromosomes important?
21. What are the two functioning cells in a pollen grain called?
22. Female cones are called.
23. On the scales of a cone are special cells called.
24. What structures contain megaspore mother cells?
CLEARVUE Plant Series
Plants:Angiosperms
After Viewing:
1. What is the meaning of the word angiosperm?
2. Angiosperms are also called the.
3. A flower bud is protected by special leaves called .
4. What do the sepals enclose?
5. What is the male reproductive part of a flower called?
6. Name the two parts of a stamen.
7. What are the very small cells inside an immature anther?
8. Four microspores develop from a microspore mother cell by the type of cell reproduction called.
9. How does the chromosome count differ between the microspore mother cell and the four microspores?
10. What does a pollen grain consist of?
11. What is the name of a flower’s female reproductive structure?
12. What are the three parts of a pistil?
13. The reproductive structures within an ovary are called.
14. What is the large cell within each immature ovule called?
15. A megaspore mother cell divides by meiosis to produce four cells called.
16. How many megaspores survive?
17. What are the two cells that develop in an ovule?
18. A pollen grain trapped on a stigma grows a.
19. What happens to the generative cell in the pollen tube?
20. When the pollen tube reaches the ovule, what functions do the two sperm carry out?
21. A fertilized egg is called a.
22. A zygote grows to become an immature plant called an.
23. What becomes of the central cell?
24. An embryo develops one or two new food storage structures called.
25. What are the parts of a seed?
26. The ovary surrounding the seed becomes a.
27. What are some of the ways seeds can be dispersed?
28. In what way does asexual reproduction differ from sexual reproduction?
29. What is another name for asexual reproduction in plants?
30. Almost all roses and fruit trees are propagated by.
31. Plants that have two cotyledons in their seeds are called.
32. Plants with one cotyledon in their seeds are called.
33. What is the function of vascular tubes in a plant body?
34. You can see the bundles of vascular tubes in the leaves of a plant.
35. How do the number of petals differ between monocots and dicots?
36. What is the growth pattern of plants that are called annuals?
37. What is the growth pattern of biennials?
38. What is the growth pattern of perennials?
39. Name some of the important agricultural crops that are in the grass family.
40. Beans, peas, and alfalfa are called.
41. What are the bacteria that live in the roots of legumes called?
42. Why are nitrogen-fixing bacteria important? [
43. What is the largest group of angiosperms?