1. Note Taker Guide for pg. 304-307
Seedless Plants
Note Taker Guide
for pg

2. Non Vascular Plant
Moss
Liverworts
Hornworts

3. Where do they get their water?

4. What is a rhizoid?

5. How does a rhizoid help?

6. Nonvascular plants are important
First to live in an environment
Form a thin layer of soil
Reduce soil erosion
Food for some animals
Nesting material for some animals

7. Seedless vascular plants

8. Club mosses
Grew to 40 m in ancient forests.

9. Rhizome- underground stem

10. Plant Reproduction Plants make spores in the sporophyte stage Fern
Plant Reproduction
Fern
Plants make spores
in the sporophyte stage

11. Plant Reproduction
When the spores of some plants grow, the new plants called gametophytes

12. Plant Classification Fern is an example of a seedless vascular plant
Fronds – First fern leaves

13. Club moss vs. Moss
Club moss has vascular tissue moss does not

14. Height
Club mosses
Horsetails
20m 8m

15. Horsetail silica

16. Horsetails – used to scrub pots

17. Role of seedless vascular plants
Help prevent soil erosion
Form communities
Add to soil depth
House plants
Cooked and eaten
Shampoo
Skin-care products
Coal to heat homes