Download Objective: To identify the classification of plants without flower

Essential Question: How do new plants grow?
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Date: Thursday, July 30th 2015
Topic: Classification of Plants without Flower.
Objective: To identify the classification of plants without flower.
CHARACTERISTICS OF PLANTS WITHOUT FLOWER
When we think of growing a plant, we probably
imagine planting a seed.
Not all plants make seeds. In fact, all nonvascular plants
and some vascular plants are seedless. These plants,
like all plants, spread by producing spores.
All seedless plants are Plants without Flowers.
Plants
Classification
Nonvascular
Plants
Vascular Plants
Seed
Seedless
(flowerless)
Seedless
(flowerless)
Gymnosperms
Ferns
Moss
Angiosperms
Horsetails
Liverworts and
Hornworts
Club Mosses
CHARACTERISTICS OF PLANTS
WITHOUT FLOWERS
Nonvascular Plants:
Mosses
Mosses grow on moist soil or on rocks, forming a fuzzy mat of tiny green plants. A
rhizoid is a nonvascular rootlike structure that helps mosses attach to surfaces such
as rocks and trees. Rhizoids help the plants get water and nutrients.
Liverworts and Hornworts
Like mosses, liverworts and hornworts are small nonvascular plants that usually live
in damp environments.
Vascular Plants
Ferns
Ferns are seedless vascular plants often grown as
house plants. Ferns have roots, and most ferns also
have rhizomes that help them spread.
A rhizome is an underground stem from which new leaves
and roots grow.
Horsetails
Horsetails have can-like stems with leaves that grow in a unique whorl pattern around the
stems. They can be up to eight meters tall, but many are smaller.
Club Mosses
Club Mosses have vascular tissue, roots, stems, and tiny leaves. An example of a modern club moss
is the ground pine (a miniature pine tree). They grow in woodlands and near streams and marshes.
Date: Thursday, July 30th 2015
Topic: Classification of Plants without Flower.
Objective: To answer questions based on previous knowledge
PRACTICE # 2
Write three types of Plants without Flower:
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What is one characteristic of Nonvascular Plants?
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How do Ferns reproduce?
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How do Mosses obtain water and nutrients?