2. Today’s Agenda…  No bellringer or flashback  Review Unit Tests  Discuss homework for this weekend  Review packet from yesterday  Notes on Seedless Plants

3. PLANTS Seedless Plants Seed Plants Non vascular Vascular Seeds in Cones Seeds in Flowers

4. Seedless Plants Study Pack #2

5. Today’s Goals…  I  I can compare and contrast seedless nonvascular plants and seedless vascular plants. can identify the importance of some nonvascular and vascular plants.

6. Mosses and Liverworts SSSSmall LLLLive on bark, rocks and soil NNNNo vascular system MMMMust live in places that are wet NNNNo true roots, stems, or leaves

7. Mosses

8. Liverworts

9.  Live together in large groups  Covering soil or rocks in a mat of tiny green plants  Each moss has rhizoids (root- like structures)  Rhizoids help anchor the plant

10. Importance of Mosses and Liverworts:  Usually the first plants to inhabit a new environment  Form a thin layer of soil when they die  Help hold the soil in place which prevents erosion  Nesting material for birds  Peat moss can be burned as fuel

11. Ferns, Horsetails, and Club Mosses:  Grow tall  Have vascular systems

12. Ferns

13. Ferns  Can grow almost anywhere.  Have an underground stem called a rhizome.  Leaves are called fronds.

14. Horsetails

15. Horsetails  Small vascular plants.  Grow less than 1.3 meters tall.  Grow in wet, marshy places.  Stems are hollow and contain cilia.  Pioneers used them to scrub pots and pans.

16. Club Mosses  25 cm tall.  Grow in woodlands.  Unlike other mosses, they have vascular tissue.

17. Importance of Seedless Vascular Plants  Help form soil when they die.  Also hold soil in place to prevent erosion.  Ferns serve as house plants.  Some are cooked and eaten.  Formed coal.