Plant Kingdom

Question 1

Non Vascular plants

Answer 1

Bryophytes: mosses, liverworts, hornworts. No true vascular system, no roots

Question 2

Seedless Vascular Plants

Answer 2

Formed forests 350 mil. yrs ago, most now extinct: club mosses, horsetails, ferns.

Question 3

Seed producing Vascular Plants

Answer 3

Two groups are Gymnosperms (naked seed) and Angiosperms (flowering plants)

Question 4

Gymnosperms

Answer 4

Cone bearing plants: pines, firs, cedars. Evergreen, can photosynthesize all the time. Reproduce using cones, male produce pollen, female produce egg

Question 5

Angiosperms

Answer 5

Flower producing plants. Produce pollen but seeds created inside fruit. Deciduous trees and all flowering plants. Some have separate male+female flowers, others have both within one plant. Two main types, Monocots + Dicots

Question 6

What three groups is the plant kingdom made of?

Answer 6

Non-vascular, Seedless vascular, Seed producing vascular