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The Plant Kingdom
What are Plants?
Please use pages 250 – 255 to answer the following questions.
1. Plants are part of the ______Plantae.
2. Plants are considered ______because they use ______to make their own food.
3. Why do you not need a microscope to see plants?
4. What do plants need in order to survive on land?
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5. What is the cuticle?
6. What is the cuticle used for?
7. Larger plants have transport tissue called ______.
8. What is vascular tissue?
9. ______walls and ______tissue add ______to the bodies of large plants.
10. All plants undergo ______reproduction.
11. REVIEW! – What are characteristics that all plants share?
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12. Label the parts of plant cell below.
13. Scientists informally group plants into ______major groups –
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14. Complete the following Venn diagram comparing and contrasting nonvascular and vascular plants.
15. What is one-way scientist can study the origin of plants?
16. What can scientists infer are the ancient ancestors of today’s plants?
17. Plants produce spores during the ______stage and produce sex cells during the ______stage.
18. Is the following sentence true or false? The sporophyte of a plant looks the same as the gametophyte. ______
Plants without Seeds
The Kingdom Plantae continued
Please use pages 256 – 260 and the previous passage to answer the following questions.
Plants Without Seeds
19. List two characteristics of nonvascular plants.
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20. Is the following sentence true or false? Nonvascular plants can become very large and tall because of their support system. ______
21. How do nonvascular plants get water? ______
22. Is the following sentence true or false? Nonvascular plants must have water to let the sperm cells swim to the egg cells. ______
23. Label the gametophyte and the
sporophyte in the diagram of the moss.
24. What are the thin, root-like structures that anchor moss and absorb water and nutrients from the soil?
25. Where are liverworts often found growing? ______
Seedless Vascular Plants
26. List two characteristics that ferns, club mosses and horsetails share.
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27. Circle the letter before each sentence that is true about vascular plants.
a. Plants can grow tall without vascular tissue.
b. Nonvascular plants are better suited to life on land.
c. Vascular tissue transports water and food throughout a plant’s body.
d. Vascular tissue gives a plant strength and stability.
28. Why must ferns, club mosses and horsetails grow in moist surroundings? ______
29. Fern leaves are called ______.
30. What is the function of the cuticle on the upper surface of ferns leaves? ______
31. Circle the letter before each sentence that is true about club mosses and horsetails.
a. There are thousands of different species of club mosses and horsetails.
b. Club mosses usually grow in moist woodlands and near streams.
c. Club mosses have jointed stems with long, need-like branches that grow in a circle around each joint.
d. Horsetail stems contain silica, a gritty substance also found in sand.
Characteristics of Seed Plants
The Kingdom Plantae continued
Please use pages 262 – 271 to answer the following questions.
What is a Seed Plant?
1. What two important characteristics do seed plants share?
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2. In seed plants, the plants that you see are in the ______stage of the life
cycle. The ______stage is microscopic.
3. In what two ways does vascular tissue help seed plants to live on land?
a. ______
b. ______
4. What are the two types of vascular tissue and what they transport?
a. Phloem - ______
b. ______- Transports water and minerals
5. What do seed plants use to transport the sperm cells? ______
6. What is pollen? ______
7. What is a seed? ______
8. What are the important similarities that all seeds share? ______
9. Match the part of the seed with its function.
Seed Part Function
______Embryo a. Keeps the seed from drying out
______Cotyledon b. Young plant that develops from fertilized egg
______Seed Coat c. A seed leaf that sometimes store food
10. Complete the concept map to show ways that seeds are dispersed.
11. What is germination? ______
12. Once you can see a plant’s leaves, it’s called a ______.
Roots
13. List three functions of roots.
a. ______
b. ______
c. ______
14. Look at the two types of root systems illustrated below. Label the roots as taproot or fibrous roots.
15. What are the functions of the following parts of a root?
a. Root Cap: ______
b. Root Hairs: ______
c. Phloem: ______
d. Xylem: ______
16. What cell layer produces new phloem and xylem?
Stems
17. List three functions of the stems.
a. ______
b. ______
c. ______
18. How are herbaceous stems different from woody stems?
19. What are annual rings?
20. What tissue makes up a tree’s annual rings? ______
21. What can the width of a tree’s annual rings tell you about the past weather conditions? ______
Leaves
22. What role do leaves play in a plant?
23. Find the functions of each part of a leaf listed below.
a. Cuticle- ______
b. Xylem - ______
c. Phloem - ______
d. Stomata - ______
e. Lower leaf cells - ______
f. Upper leaf cells - ______
24. The process by which water evaporates form a plant’s leaves is called ______.
25. Is the following sentence true or false? Stomata close to keep the plant from losing water. ______
Gymnosperms and Angiosperms
The Kingdom Plantae continued
Please use pages 272 – 281 to answer the following questions.
Gymnosperms – The OLDEST seed plant!
26. What is a gymnosperm?
27. Why are the seeds considered “naked”?
28. What are two characteristics of gymnosperms?
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29. What are the four groups of gymnosperms that exist today?
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#2: ______
#3: ______
#4: ______
30. Complete the following Venn Diagrams about cycads and conifers.
Reproduction in Gymnosperms
31. Most gymnosperms have reproductive structures called ______.
32. What is the:
a. male gametophyte
b. female gametophyte
33. What is an ovule?
34. Complete the life cycle below of the gymnosperm by adding the descriptions to each stage.
Angiosperms – Flowering plants!
Pages 276 - 279
35. All angiosperms share two characteristics:
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36. What is a flower?
37. Complete the chart with the role each structure plays in a flower.
Structure of Flower / Role of StructureSepal
Petals
Stamens
Pistils
Pollinators
38. Label the parts of a flower below.
39. How does reproduction occur in angiosperms?
40. Complete the life cycle below of the angiosperm by adding the descriptions to each stage.
Pollination:
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Fertilization:
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Fruit Development and Seed Dispersal:
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41. How can animals help disperse plant seeds?
42. Angiosperms are divided into two major groups:
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43. “COT” is short for ______
44. “MONO” means ______
45. “DI” means ______
46. Types of Angiosperms
Plant Responses and Growth
The Kingdom Plantae continued
Please use pages 284 – 287 to answer the following questions.
Tropism
Pages 284 – 285
47. What is tropism?
48. Complete the following chart on the types of stimuli.
Stimuli / Response / DescriptionTouch / Thigmotropism
Light / Phototropism
Gravity / Gravitropism
Hormones / N/A
49. What is one role that the plant hormone auxin plays?
Seasonal Changes
Page 286
Phototropism
50. A plant’s response to seasonal changes in length of night and day is called ______.
51. Plants differ in how they respond to the length of nights. What is this length called?
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52. Complete the chart on the types of plants.
Plant Type / Description / ExampleShort – day plant / Poinsettias
When nights are shorter than a critical length
Day – neutral plant
Dormancy
53. What is dormancy?
Life Spans of Angiosperms
Page 287
54. Angiosperms are classified as annuals, biennials or perennials based on what?
55. Complete the following chart on the life spans of angiosperms.
Type of Life Span / Description / ExampleAnnuals / Impatiens and Cucumbers
Biennials / Complete life cycle in 2 years:
1st Year: Develop roots and short stems
2nd Year: Grow taller, produce flowers & seeds then die
Perennials / Peonies