Download Seed Plants (Pg 262-271)

Seed Plants (Pg 262-271)
1. What are the two characteristics
of seed plants?
They have vascular tissue (tubes), and
they both use pollen and seeds to
reproduce.
2. What are the two kinds of
vascular tissue (tubes) in seed
plants?
Phloem and xylem
3. Vascular tissue
Job
Xylem
the tubes
where water enter and move upward
into the stems and leaves
Phloem
the tubes
through which food moves
4 Vascular plants contains
__pollen_____, tiny structures that
will later become sperm cells.
5. What is a seed?
A structure that contains a young
plant inside a protective covering
6. What are the three main basic
parts of a seeds? Describe each part.
1.An embryo (baby plant) is a zygote,
or fertilized egg.
2.The stored food, which is stored
outside the embryo.
3.A seed coat, which protects the seed
from drying out.
7. What is seed dispersal? What
are the 4 ways that seeds can
disperse? Scattering of seeds is called
seed dispersal
Dispersal by wind, water, animals,
and force.
8. What is germination?
A process in which the embryo begins
to grow and push out the seed
9. What is the job of roots? What
part of the root helps to do this job?
1.Roots anchor a plant in the ground,
2.absorb water minerals from the soil,
and
3. sometimes store food. The root cap
helps do its job. carrot, radish
10. What are the two kinds of
roots?
Fibrous and taproot
11. What is the job of a stem?
1.Carries substances between the
plants roots and leaves,
2.provides support for the plant
3.holds up the leaves so they can be
exposed to the sun.
12. What are annual rings?
The patterns of circles that represents
a trees yearly growth.
13. What is the job of the leaves?
Captures the suns energy and carries
out the food making process of
photosynthesis.
14. Which cells of the leaves are
responsible for photosynthesis?
The ones located near the leafs upper
surface. These cell contain
chloroplast.
15. What is used and what is made
during photosynthesis?
Used
Carbon dioxide and water
Made
Sugar(food) and oxygen
.
16. What is transpiration? Which
structure of leaf prevent water loss
The process by which water
evaporates from a plant’s leaves.
The cuticle and stomata in the leaf
prevents water loss.