Mosses and Ferns

What do we call plants without tubelike structures?

• vascular

• nonvascular

• seedless

Moss plants don't have 'roots' but they have small structures that absorb water called...

• rhizoids

• roots

• rhisomes

We know that ferns are vascular plants because they are tall. True or false?

• true

• false

What do we call the leaf of a fern?

• fiddlehead

• rhisome

• frond

What do moss and fern plants use to reproduce?

• seeds

• spores

• rhisomes

Which plants grow well in wooded areas?

• mosses

• ferns

• both mosses and ferns

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-5

Why are the spore cases on the bottom of the fern leaf?

• so they spray all around the ground

• so they fall right under the parent plant

• so no one can find them

Why are moss plants so short?

• They are nonvascular.

• Mosses are only 1-2 cells thick.

• They are vascular.