CHARACTERISTICS OF SEED PLANTS

What is a seed plant?

What two characteristics would a seed plant need to have?

What is the advantage to produce seeds as opposed to spores?

PARTS OF A SEED

How are seeds dispersed? 1. Wind 2. Water 3. Animals 4. Explosions 5. All of the Above

How are seeds dispersed? 5. All of the Above

SEED DISPERSAL

Which of the following is(are) NOT a device for dispersing seeds? 1.1. Water moves up Food moves down Food moves up Water moves down. 1. Insects 2. Wind 3. Water 4. Large animals

Which of the following is(are) NOT a device for dispersing seeds? 1.1. Water moves up Food moves down Food moves up Water moves down. 1. Insects

What is the process called when the embryo of the seed begins to grow and sprout leaves and roots? 1. Transpiration 2. Evaporation 3. Germination 4. Extermination

What is the process called when the embryo of the seed begins to grow and sprout leaves and roots? 3. Germination

GERMINATION

Germination begins when a seed … 1. is dispersed. 2. absorbs water. 3. uses its stored food. 4. grows roots and a stem.

Germination begins when a seed … 2. absorbs water.

What are the parts of a leaf?

XYLEM and PHLOEM STOMATA CUTICLE CHLOROPLAST

Gases pass in and out of a leaf through the 1. phloem. 2. xylem. 3. cuticle. 4. stomata.

Gases pass in and out of a leaf through the 4. stomata.

STEMS

HERBACOUS STEMS

WOODY STEMS

ROOTS

Cross section of a root Root Tip XYLEM and PHLOEM

TAPROOT

FIBROUS ROOT

What is NOT a root function in plants? 1. to absorb water 2. to store food 3. to anchor plants 4. to produce food

What is NOT a root function in plants? 4. to produce food

What are the two types of stems?

What are the two types of vascular tissue?

What happens in the phloem? 1.1. Water moves up Food moves down Food moves up Water moves down. 1. Water moves up. 2. Food moves down. 3. Food moves up. 4. Water moves down.

What happens in the phloem? 1.1. Water moves up Food moves down Food moves up Water moves down. 2. Food moves down.

Which of the following is NOT a part of a seed? 1. stored food 2. the embryo 3. the cotyledon 4. the fruit

Which of the following is NOT a part of a seed? 4. the fruit