Plant Classification

1. When plants are classified by how they transport water, scientists group them as:

• monocots or dicots

• seedless or seed-bearing

• vascular or nonvascular

• angiosperms or gymnosperms

Which plant is NOT a a vascular plant?

• livewort

• club moss

• horsetail

• gingkgo

Mosses and liverworts have small, rootlike structures called:

• rhizomes

• rhizoids

• hyphae

• tubers

_________ are vascular plants with tall, hollow, jointed stems.

• Horsetails

• Mosses

• Liverworts

• Ginkgoes

Ferns and horsetails grow from underground stems called:

• rhizoids

• hyphae

• rhizomes

• tubers

Last summer Samantha did not pull all the carrots in his garden. This year, she noticed that those carrots grew flowers and produced seeds. This happened because the carrots are a(n)________ plant.

• biennial

• annual

• perennial

• centennial

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-5

Maria has picked blueberries from the bush on her grandpa's farm for the past five years. A blueberry bush is an example of a(n) _______ plant.

• annual

• perennial

• biennial

• centennial

Mrs. Abbott enjoys having different flowers in her yard each year. She should choose _________ flowers.

• annual

• perennial

• biennial

• centennial

The first root that emerges from a seed is called:

• aerial root

• taproot

• fibrous root

• primary root

A leafy branch of a fern is a:

• Xylem

• Frond

• Root

• Phloem