1. Plants Essential Question:
What adaptations have enabled plants to survive Earths changing environments?

2. Objectives Students should be able to:
1. Describe the characteristics of plants.
2. Recognize the various life cycles of plants.
3. Describe how seed plants grow and reproduce.
4. Compare and contrast gymnosperms and angiosperms.
5. Identify parts of a flower.
6. Describe how plants respond to their environment.
7. Describe the importance of plants to the environment and our lives.
8. Describe the various life processes that plant cells undergo.
9. Explain how a plant obtains and uses energy.

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4. Plant Characteristics
They make their own food
Chloroplasts contain chlorophyll
Chlorophyll absorbs energy from the sun
Plants use the energy to make food - glucose (sugar)
Process is called Photosynthesis

5. Chloroplasts:

6. Plant Characteristics
Plant Cells have Cell Walls

7. What is a Cell Wall a plant cell is surrounded by a rigid cell wall
outside of the cell membrane
helps support and protect the plant

8. Plant Characteristics
Plants reproduce sexually and asexually
with spores (asexually)
gametes or sex cells (sexually)

9. Asexual Reproduction: Spores
A plant in the spore producing stage of life.
Spores can grow directly into an adult plant

10. Sexual Reproduction: gametes (sex cells)
Male and female sex cells must join in order to grow into a new plant.
This is called Fertilization.

11. Plants Classification
There are more than 260,000 species of plants.
They can be divided into two groups:
Nonvascular
Vascular

12. Tree Map

13. Plants are Classified into TWO groups
Vascular Plants
Nonvascular Plants

14. Plants are Classified into TWO groups
Nonvascular Plants:
have no pipes to transport water and nutrients
depend on diffusion and osmosis to move material from one part of the plant to another
They have to be small: mosses, liverworts

15. Liverwort Mosses

16. Vascular Plants
Have tissues that deliver needed materials throughout a plant - called vascular tissues.
Can be almost any size.
Are divided into gymnosperms and angiosperms

17. Gymnosperms--non-flowering plants

18. Angiosperms -- flowering plants

19. Video Clips on Plant Adaptations
Desert Plants Adaptations
Plants Survival

20. Completion
Complete Summary - 3 sentences and 2 examples Answer to Essential Question

21. Rubric