Name
Date
Class
Classifying Plants
On a separate sheet of paper, explain the two key factors that separate nonvascular
plants from seedless vascular plants from seed plants.
99D
Name
Date
Class
Classifying Plants
Understanding Main Ideas
Answer the following questions on a separate sheet of paper.
1. In what ways do nonvascular plants, seedless vascular plants, and
seed plants differ?
2. How does the absence of vascular tissue in nonvascular plants affect
their structure and appearance?
3. Name the two types of vascular tissue and describe their functions.
4. What three structures do the bodies of all vascular plants have?
5. How are gymnosperms and angiosperms different?
6. What are the four types of gymnosperms?
7. Describe the different traits of monocots and dicots.
Building Vocabulary
Match each term with its definition by writing the letter of the correct definition in the
right column on the line beside the term in the left column.
8.
cotyledon
a. a thin, rodlike structure that anchors a moss plant
and absorbs water and nutrients
9.
rhizoid
b. a seed leaf
10.
frond
c. the leaf of a fern
11.
pollen
d. structures that contain cells that will later become
sperm cells
99E