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Plant Concept Map
There may be over a half-million species of plants growing on Earth. Many have not even been
identified yet or classified. Scientists have an enormous task as they try to locate, identify, and classify
new species. They use a man-made classification system and apply it to nature to gain more organization
and understanding of the natural world.
Directions:
Complete the classification concept map about common plants using the terms provided.
Plants
(lacks transport tissue,
ground hugging)
(most abundant in wet places)
(taller plants with
transport tissue)
(liver shaped leaves)
Seedless Plants
(most numerous seedless
has leafy fronds)
Seed Plants
(stem may not have leaves)
(only plant left of this group)
(cone bearing plants)
(has flowers to make seeds)
Terms:
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non-vascular
vascular
fern
liverworts
horsetail
KC 4 Science
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gingko
conifer
flowering
mosses
© 2008 Kent ISD
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Plant Concept Map (Answer Key)
There may be over a half-million species of plants growing on Earth. Many have not even been
identified yet or classified. Scientists have an enormous task as they try to locate, identify, and classify
new species. They use a man-made classification system and apply it to nature to gain more organization
and understanding of the natural world.
Directions:
Complete the classification concept map about common plants using the terms provided.
Plants
non-vascular
vascular
(lacks transport tissue,
ground hugging)
(taller plants with
transport tissue)
mosses
liverworts
(most abundant in wet places)
(liver shaped leaves)
Seedless Plants
fern
horsetail
(most numerous seedless
has leafy fronds)
(stem may not have leaves)
Seed Plants
gingko
conifer
(only plant left of this group)
(cone bearing plants)
flowering
(has flowers to make seeds)
Terms:
•
•
•
•
•
non-vascular
vascular
fern
liverworts
horsetail
KC 4 Science
•
•
•
•
gingko
conifer
flowering
mosses
© 2008 Kent ISD