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PLANT NOTES
A. Two types of plants:
Non-vascular
1. __________________________________
Vascular
2. __________________________________
B. Non-Vascular Plants:
non-vscular
tubes
1. Plants without ___________
are called ________________
plants.
mosses
2. Examples of nonvascular plants are _______________
.
plants that live in
non-vascular
3. Mosses are ___________
____________
moist
___________
places.
tubes
4. Because mosses lack ___________
that is why they are
moist
shady
____________
and like _____________
____________
short
areas.
reproduce and to
5. Mosses rely on moisture to ______________
water
transport _____________
and ________________by
nutrients
osmosis
diffusion
________________
& _________________.
C. Vascular Plants:
two
Vascular plants can be divided into _________
groups:
plants
seedless
a) ________________ ___________,
plants
seed
b) _______________
____________.
D. Seedless Plants:
Ferns
vascular
1. ____________
are examples of _________________
plants that have tubes.
Ferns
taller
2. ____________
are able to grow ____________
because
tubes
water
they have ___________
for transporting ____________
nutrients from the roots.
and ____________
moist
3. Ferns still need a _______________
environment to
reproduce
mosses
_________________, so like ___________,
they also
like _______________
areas.
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E. Seed Plants:
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There are two types of seed plants:
Gymnosperms
1. _________________:
non-flowering seed plants
Angiosperms
2. _________________: flowering seed plants.
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F. Classification of Plants:
Plants
Level I
(mosses, ferns, pine trees & flowers)
Nonvscular
__________
Vascular
__________
ferms,pine
trees_______)
& flowers
(____,
_____ _____&
mosses
(_____)
Level II
Seedless Plants
(ferns)
Seed
Plants
_____ _____
(pine trees & _______)
flowers
Level III
Gymnosperms
____________
Level IV
G. Seed Plant Structure:
pine _____)
trees
(_____
Angiosperms
___________
flowers
(_______)
tissue
vascular
1. There are two types of _________________
_____________
water
a) xylem: carries ______________
b) phloem: carries _____________
food
Roots
2.__________
serve three purposes:
anchor
a) __________
plant to ground.
minerals
absorb
b) __________
water and _____________
from soil.
store
c) __________ food (e.g. taproot).
3. Two root types:
root
fibrous
a) ___________
________:
consists of numerous roots
& root hairs (e.g. pine tree).
taproot
b) _________________:
has one main root (e.g. carrot).
Stems
4. __________
serve two purposes:
leaves
maximize
a) support _____________
to __________________
food
making capabilities.
water
b) transport _____________,
_______________,
and
minerals
food between roots and _____________.
leaves
5. Two stem types:
Herbaceous
a) __________________:
green and soft stems.
Woody
b) __________________: hard stems that generally
contain seasonal rings.
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H. Leaf Purpose
Leaves
1. ______________
serve one primary function:
a) make ____________
for the plant.
food
- this is accomplished through the process of
photosynthesis
___________________________.
water
- sunlight energy is used to combine ____________
dioxide
carbon
and ___________ _____________ to make food
(glucose) during photosynthesis.
I. Leaf Structure:
1.
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