1. Plants & Classification Notes
There will be a quiz on this material soon.
 Please take notes 

2. What are plants? Multi-cellular organisms
Make own food (photosynthesis)
Have chloroplasts
Have rigid cell walls made of cellulose
Found all over the world

3. Plants provide: Food Oxygen Medicines Building materials
Textiles (fibers)
Coloring pigments

4. Plant Parts Roots Anchors the plant Absorbs water & minerals Storage
AKA “tuber”
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5. Plant Parts Stems Support plant Storage Food & water “highway”
Xylem carries water & minerals; goes up stem only
Phloem carries food; goes up & down the stem
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6. Plant Parts Leaves Provide food (photosynthesis)
Have chloroplasts (green coloring-chlorophyll)
Transpiration (“sweating”)
Respiration
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7. Plant Classification

8. Plants Without Seeds Need water to reproduce Reproduce with spores
Include
Mosses
Ferns
Horsetails
Bladderworts
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9. Plants with Seeds 2 types Found all over the world
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10. Gymnosperms Means “naked seed” Often have cones & needle-like leaves
Do not have flowers
Ex: conifers, gingko

11. Angiosperms
Flowering plants
Largest group
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12. Angiosperms Monocots Has 1 food part Parallel veins
Petals in groups of 3, 6, 9
Xylem & phloem scattered throughout stem

13. Monocots

14. Angiosperms Dicots Have 2 food parts Net-like veins
Petals in groups of 4 or 5
Xylem & phloem are ring-like in stem

15. Dicots

16. Homework Scavenger Hunt!!! Find the following things: A root A stem
A leaf
3 examples of seeds
Paste them on a sheet of paper and label each of them Be sure to include your name!!!