Plants Table of Contents What Is a Plant? Classifying Plants Plant Structures Plant Reproduction Plant Responses and Growth Plants in Everyday Life

What Is a Plant? Plant Cells How does having cell walls affect a plant's ability to grow?

What Is a Plant? Getting Water in the Desert Saguaro roots spread horizontally and quickly absorb water from a wide area. The Acacia tree gets its water from deep in the ground. How are its roots different?

What Is a Plant? This graph shows how much water a plant loses during the day. What would be a good title for the graph?

Classifying Plants Moss Structure Moss grows a long, slender stalk with a capsule at the end that contains spores for reproduction. Rootlike rhizoids anchor the moss and absorb water and nutrients.

Classifying Plants Nonvascular Plants Complete the table.

Classifying Plants Fern Structure Like other plants, ferns have roots, stems, and leaves.

Classifying Plants Monocots and Dicots

Classifying Plants Major Groups of Known Plants

Plant Structures Root Structure Roots have many structures.

Plant Structures Stem Structure The woody stem of a tree contains many different structures. What are the active xylem and phloem on the tree trunk?

Plant Structures Leaf Structure Each structure helps a leaf produce food.

Plant Structures Stomata Stomata can slow water loss.

Plant Structures Story of a Seed Which is the seed’s embryo, cotyledons, and seed coat on the diagram? Stem and root Stored Food

Plant Structures Structures of a Typical Flower

Plant Reproduction Plant Life Cycle All plants go through two stages in their life cycle. Which are the sporophyte and gametophyte stages?

Plant Reproduction Gymnosperm Reproduction Cycle Explain the steps of pollination and fertilization in the cycle.

Plant Reproduction Angiosperm Reproduction Reproduction in angiosperms begins with flowers.

Plant Reproduction Flower to Fruit What is the correct order of progression of flower to fruit?

Plant Responses and Growth Plant Responses to Stimuli The stimuli in space are not always the same as those on Earth.

Plant Responses and Growth Light All plants exhibit a response to light called phototropism.

Plant Responses and Growth Photoperiodism Flowering plants can be grouped as short-day plants, long-day plants, and day-neutral plants.

Plant Responses and Growth The graph shows how many seeds germinated over time at each temperature.

Plant Responses and Growth Roving for Life in Space The rover has found three living things and one of them is a plant. Which sample is that plant?

Plants in Everyday Life The Role of Plants in an Ecosystem What are two other roles that an oak tree serves for living or nonliving things?