Plant Basics

Question 1

Mosses

Answer 1

Live in damp places; large groups; leafy green stalks and rhizoids

Question 2

4 plant characteristics

Answer 2

1) Perform photosynthesis
2) Contain cuticles
3) Have cell walls
4) Reproduce

Question 3

Hornworts and liverworts

Answer 3

Similar to mosses; difference in shapes of leaves of gametophytes

Question 4

Importance of nonvascular plants

Answer 4

Usually first plant in new environment; form a thin layer of soil when they die in which new plants can grow

Question 5

Two stage life cycle of all plants

Answer 5

1) Sporophyte

2) Gametophyte

Question 6

Vascular plants

Answer 6

Have specialized tissues to conduct material through the cell: ferns, horsetails, club mosses

Question 7

Rhizoid

Answer 7

A root like structure that holds nonvascular plants in place and helps get nutrients and water

Question 8

Horsetails

Answer 8

Grow in wet places, stems are hollow and made of silica; used by early farmers to wash things

Question 9

Classification

Answer 9

1) Vascular

2) Nonvascular

Question 10

Seedless vascular plants examples

Answer 10

Ex. ferns, horsetails and club mosses

Question 11

Groups of vascular plants

Answer 11

1) Seedless
2) Nonflowering seed plants
3) Flowering seed plants

Question 12

Club mosses

Answer 12

Not true moss because they are vascular

Question 13

Ferns

Answer 13

Grow everywhere; small and big (24 m/ 72 ft); have rhizomes

Question 14

Nonvascular seed plants

Answer 14

Lack specialized conducting tissues to move water and nutrients through the plant; lack true roots, stems and leaves: Liverwort, hornwort, mosses

Question 15

Importance of seedless vascular plants

Answer 15

Help form soil; prevent erosion; popular houseplants; used to make vitamins, shampoo; remain of some plants form coal

Question 16

Rhizome

Answer 16

Horizontal, underground stems that produces new leaves, shoots and roots