Plant Classification

What are non-vascular plants?

• plants that have a root system: roots, stem, and leaves

• plants that produce flowers and seeds

• plants that have seeds protected by fruit

• plants that do not have tube-like structures that carry water, nutrients, and other substances throughout the plant

How do nutrients move through non-vascular plants

• along stems

• from cell to cell

• through leaves

• from plant to plant

What system is used for grouping similar things together?

• buddy system

• filing system

• classification system

• organization system

In which two groups do moss belong?

• non-vascular and seed-producing

• non-vascular and spore-producing

• vascular and spore-producing

• vascular and seed-producing

Which of these is an example of a vascular plant?

• moss

• hornwort

• liverwort

• sunflower

Which of these is an example of a non-vascular plant?

• rose

• moss

• sunflower

• all of these

What is xylem?

• in vascular plants, tissue that carries water and nutrients from roots to the other parts of a plant

• a flowering plant whose seeds are surrounded by fruit

• a plant that does not produce seeds or flowers

• a plant that only produces seeds

Photosynthesis is:

• a plant that has green leaves or needles

• a process plants use to make food and oxygen

• a gas in the air

• none of these

Identify 3 characteristics that are true about moss.

Select all that apply.

• It is a non-vascular plant.

• It requires lots of water.

• It reproduces by spores.

• It has true stems, roots, and leaves.

• It absorbs water and nutrients directly from its surroundings.

If mosses do not have true stems or roots, how do they get water through them so they can use photosynthesis?

• from cell to cell

• by xylem

• by phloem

• by drinking it