1. 3/16/15 Mr. Faia 6th Grade Science
Seedless Plants
3/16/15
Mr. Faia
6th Grade Science

2. Nonvascular Plants What are the 3 nonvascular plants?
Where do nonvascular plants live?
What are they missing that vascular plants have?

3. Mosses Composed of leafy stalks and rhizoids
Define rhizoid
What are the 2 stages of a moss’s lifecycle?

4. Liverworts and Hornworts
Where are liverworts and hornworts usually found?
What do the gametophytes of these 2 plants look like?

5. Importance of Nonvascular Plants
What do nonvascular plants do when they die?
How is peat moss important to humans?

6. Seedless Vascular Plants
What are the 3 Seedless Vascular plants?
40m
18m 8m

7. Ferns Where do ferns grow? How tall can they grow? What is a rhizome?
How is it different than a rhizoid?
What stage of the lifecycle would a fiddlehead be in?

8. Horsetails and Club Mosses
How tall can horsetails grow?
Where do they usually grow?
What is found in horsetail stems?

9. Horsetails and Club Mosses
Where are club mosses found?
How is a club moss different than other mosses?

10. Importance of Seedless Vascular
Help prevent soil erosion
Some are edible
What are horsetails used in?
What do ancient seedless vascular plants form?

11. REVIEW Name 3 nonvascular plants. Name 3 vascular seedless plants.
What is the difference between nonvascular
and vascular plants?
What is a rhizoid?
What is a rhizome?
Which is a vascular tissue? Rhizoid or rhizome?
How are club mosses different from regular mosses?