Classifying Plants

Which of the following is NOT true of mosses, liverworts, and hornworts?

• They are nonvascular plants.

• They have true roots, stems, and leaves

• They grow in moist places

• They are small and low-growing

Which type of plant has seeds that are encased in a protective fruit?

• gymnosperms

• conifers

• angiosperms

• horsetails

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of a dicot?

• two cotyledons

• vascular tissue bundles arranged in a ring

• floral part often in multiples of three

• one main root

Which statement best describes a gymnosperm?

• a nonvascular plant with roots, stems, and leaves

• a lo-growing nonvascular plant lacking true roots

• a vascular plant that uses spores to reproduce

• a vascular plant that uses pollen to produce seeds that are not enclosed in protective fruit

Seedless vacular plants use _______ to reproduce

• fern

• spores

• genes

• xylem

The young leaves of some _____ are known as fiddleheads

• ferns

• hornworts

• horsetails

• rhizoids

The vascular tissue that conducts water and nutrients in a plant is ______

• phloem

• rhizoid

• root

• xylem

All flowering plants are _____

• gymnosperms

• angiosperms

The rootlike structures that anchor a moss plant and absorb water and nutrients are called_____

• rhizomes

• roots

• rhizoids

_____ species outnumber all other land plant species by about seven to one.

• Gymnosperm

• Flowering

• Angiosperms

• Plant