1. Plants!!! What Domain? What kingdom? Eukaryotic or Prokaryotic?
Autotroph or Heterotroph?
Multicellular or Unicellular?

2. What do you notice about each of these plants
What do you notice about each of these plants. What kind of environment do you think they may live in?
Non-vascular vs. vascular. Non-vascular: less complex, low to the ground, very green. Live near water? (usually water, shady, or damp areas) Vascular: more complex, very tall, bigger, less green. Not limited to areas near water/shade…most environments.

3. What is a vascular plant?
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They have vascular tissue = a transport system
Main organs: They all have roots, stems, and leaves!
 Think back to that big tree. Plants are living. Just like you, they need water and food to survive. A plant that tall needs a way for water and food to reach all parts of it! = a need for a transport system!

4. Root System: fibrous vs. taproot
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Root System: fibrous vs. taproot
Function: to absorb water/nutrients, anchoring/support
Fibrous – many tiny roots
- Help prevent soil erosion
Taproot- one main root
Ex. carrots

5. Stems: Function: transport Transport system= vascular bundle
Xylem – transports water from roots to the leaves (up)
Phloem – transports food in both directions (up and down)

6. Leaves: Simple vs. Compound
Function: site of photosynthesis
Simple leaves only have 1 blade
Compound leaves has many small leaves

7. What you don’t see…
Mesophyll (middle layer); have a lot of chloroplasts

8. Stomata and Guard Cells
Stomata: small openings in the leaf that allow gas exchange and water to pass through
Guard cells- two cells that form stomata

9. Chloroplast – where photosynthesis happens
Chloroplasts!

10. Questions you should be able to answer..
What are the three organs of a vascular plant?
What is xylem? What is phloem?
What are the two kind of root systems?
What is the difference between a simple and compound leaf?
What is the stomata? What controls the opening and closing?
What is a cuticle?

11. Non-Vascular
= does not have a transport system

12. Plants Vascular Non-Vascular seedless Seed bearing
Ex. mosses, liverworts, hornworts
seedless
Seed bearing
Ex. ferns
Ex. pine trees, apples trees

13. Do plants respond to their environment? How?

14. Plant Response to their Environment
Use your book page 712 to write about how plants respond to their environment. List the tropism, the definition and draw an example.

15. Cuticle Stomata (opening) Guard Cells Vascular Bundle Mesophyll Xylem
(waxy covering to reduce water loss)
Vascular Bundle
(encloses xylem and phloem)
Mesophyll
(middle layer)
Xylem
(transports water)
Phloem
(transports food)
Stomata
(opening)
Guard Cells
(control stomata)

16. Exit Slip (complete on other half of paper)
Which scientific name is correctly written?
a. Homo Sapiens
b. Homo sapiens
c. homo sapiens
d. homo Sapiens
What are the characteristics of Kingdom Plantae?
Which kingdoms are prokaryotic? Which kingdoms are eukaryotic?