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Plant Classification

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
Mosses, liverworts, and hornworts are ___ plants.
a)
nonvascular
b)
vascular
2.
Nonvascular plants do not have true
a)
roots
b)
stems
c)
leaves
d)
all of these
3.
Some of the world's tallest plants are:
a)
vascular
b)
nonvascular
4.
Which group of plants absorb water like a sponge?
a)
vascular 
b)
nonvascular
5.
Ferns do not have seeds, they reproduce with,
a)
root
b)
spores
c)
flowers
d)
cones
6.
Which plants are very short and grow close to the ground?
a)
vascular
b)
nonvascular
7.
Plants get food by
a)
absorbing it.
b)
making it.
8.
Seedless plants reproduce by
a)
spores
b)
seeds
c)
binary fission
d)
mitosis
9.
Why is the plant in the picture a vascular plant?
a)
it can absorb light from the sun
b)
it has a stem that can carry water and nutrients
c)
it has more than one cell
d)
it can make it's own foo
10.
a)
cycad
b)
conifer
c)
gnetophyte
d)
horsetail
11.
Which of these is a way in which scientists classify plants?
a)
by whether they have a cell wall
b)
by how they get their energy
c)
by whether they have a nucleus
d)
by how they reproduce
12.
Which of these is NOT a way to classify plants?
a)
as vascular and nonvascular
b)
as vertebrates and invertebrates
c)
as seed producing and spore producing
d)
as deciduous and coniferous
13.

What do you call the process of organizing things into groups based on how the things are alike?

a)

kingdom

b)

species

c)

classification

d)

phylum

14.

Oak trees can grow very tall. Why can they grow so tall?

a)

They are not a plant.

b)

They are cone bearing.

c)

They are nonvascular.

d)

They are vascular.

15.

Flowering plants are called:

a)

pretty

b)

monocotyledons

c)

dicotyledons

d)

angiosperms

16.
a)
Gymnosperm
b)
Angiosperm
17.
All plants...
a)
make seeds
b)
have roots
c)
need soil
d)
make food through photosynthesis
18.

Which of the following plants do NOT reproduce using spores?

a)

Algae

b)

Strawberries

c)

Ferns

d)

Mosses

19.

Which plant is flowering and seed forming?

a)
b)
c)
d)
20.

Which of the following is true of ferns and daisies?

a)

Ferns have flowers and daisies do not.

b)

Ferns have stems and daisies do not.

c)

Ferns do not produce seeds and daisies do.

d)

Ferns do not produce spores and daisies do.