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Section 2: Classification of Plants

Study Guide 20-2

Circle the letter of the phrase that best completes the sentence.

1. Seedless plants require ____________ to reproduce.

a. water

b. fertilizer

c. dry conditions

d. bright sunshine

2. Nonvascular plants obtain water and nutrients by ____________.

a. absorbing them through roots

b. fertilization

c. absorbing them directly

d. absorbing them from bacteria

3. Seedless nonvascular plants include liverworts, hornworts, and ____________.

a. fungi

b. phyla

c. pollen

d. mosses

4. Having a ____________ allows plants to grow higher above the ground than nonvascular plants.

a. vascular system

b. cuticle

c. fiddlehead

|Plant Type |Phylum Name |Characteristics |

|club mosses |5. ____________ |Oldest living group of nonvascular plants |

| | |Some look like tiny pine trees |

|ferns |6. ____________ |The most successful survivors of the |

| | |Carboniferous period |

| | |Have large leaves called fronds |

d. spore

Study Guide A continued

Main Idea: Seed plants include cone-bearing plants and flowering plants.

7. _________ IS THE PROCESS THAT ALLOWS SEED PLANTS TO REPRODUCE WITHOUT DEPENDING ON WATER TO CARRY SPERM TO EGGS FOR FERTILIZATION.

a. Pollination

b. A vascular system

c. Spore production

d. A leaf cuticle

Fill in the blanks with the phylum name of each group of seed plants described in the table below.

|Plant Type |Phylum Name |Characteristics |

|cycads |8. _______________ |Cone-bearing |

| | |Provided food for dinosaurs |

|ginkgo |9. _______________ |Cone-bearing |

| | |Only one living species |

|conifers |10. _______________ |Cone-bearing |

| | |Trees with needle-like leaves |

|flowering plants |11. _______________ |Produce flowers and fruit |

|pollination |cone |flower |fruit |

Write the correct term from the box above next to the phrase that describes it.

______________ 12. mature ovary of flower

______________ 13. process in which pollen meets female parts of same plant

species

______________ 14. reproductive structure of most gymnosperms

______________ 15. reproductive structure of angiosperms

Section 3: Diversity of Flowering Plants

Study Guide 20-3

Main Idea: Flowering plants have unique adaptations that allow them to dominate in today’s world.

FILL IN THE CONCEPT MAP BELOW ABOUT THE ADAPTATIONS OF FLOWERING PLANTS. CHOOSE FROM THE FOLLOWING TERMS AND PHRASES: SEED DISPERSAL, FLOWERS, FRUIT, POLLINATION.

Main Idea: Botanists classify flowering plants into two groups based on

seed type.

FILL IN THE BOXES WITH THE NUMBER OF COTYLEDONS FOUND IN EACH TYPE OF

FLOWERING PLANT.

|Type of |Number of Cotyledons |Other Characteristics |

|Flowering Plant | | |

|5. monocot | |Long, narrow leaves with parallel veins |

|6. dicot | |Leaves with netlike veins |

Study Guide A continued

Main Idea: Flowering plants are also categorized by stem type and lifespan.

7. FLOWERING PLANTS ARE CATEGORIZED BY SEED TYPE, STEM TYPE, AND ____________.

a. color

b. lifespan

c. shape

d. pollination

8. Flowering plants that do not produce wood have ____________ stems.

a. lignin

b. thick

c. woody

d. herbaceous

Complete the table by filling in the blanks with the plant lifespan that corresponds to each description.

|Lifespan |Characteristics |Examples |

| 9. ___________ |Entire lifespan takes place in one year |Corn, lettuce, zinnias |

|10. ___________ |Entire lifespan takes place in two years |Carrots |

|11. ___________ |Lifespan lasts more than two years |Trees |

Vocabulary Check

Fill in the blank with the word or phrase that best completes the sentence.

12. A(n) _____________________ is an embryonic leaf inside a seed.

13. ________________ is a fibrous material made of dead cells from a plant’s vascular system.

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