Ferns and Mosses

Which is NOT a function of roots?

• Make food
• Anchor plants in the ground
• Absorb water and nutrients from the soil
• Store food

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What are moss plants produced from?

• Seeds
• Spores
• Cones
• Spruce

Ferns, club mosses and horsetails are all

• non-vascular plants
• vascular plants
• seed plants
• tall plants

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Non-vascular plants reproduce through _____________.

• seeds
• cones
• flowers
• spores

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Which of the following is an example of a non-vascular plant?

• grass
• corn
• trees
• moss

When mosses and ferns reproduce, what do they produce in the first cycle?

• spores
• fronds
• sperm
• egg

What do spores become after they are released from sporophytes?

• liverworts
• rhizoids
• cryptophobic
• gametophytes

The zygote develops into a new young fern plant, with its growth resembling the fiddlehead.

• TRUE
• FALSE

__________: egg 
Antheridium: sperm

• Archegonuim 
• Rhizome
• Protonema

In fern's life cycle, when does fertilization occur?

• when the egg and sperm fuse
• when spores germinate 
• when the young gametophyte releases sex cells