Plant Webquest – 5/17/12
What is a Plant - Provide a definition and supporting details of plants.
http://www.qrg.northwestern.edu/projects/marssim/simhtml/info/whats-a-plant.html
Identify the basic life cycle of a plant using the terms sporophyte and gametophyte.
http://www.buzzle.com/articles/gametophyte-and-sporophyte.html
What do plants need to survive?
Identify why plants need each of the following to survive.
http://nysipm.cornell.edu/teaching_ipm/sole/green_sci/plants_need.pdf
http://www.buzzle.com/articles/what-do-plants-need-to-survive.html
Sunlight:
Water and minerals:
Gas Exchange:
The Plant kingdom is divided into four groups based on three important features: Water-conducting tissues, seeds,
and flowers. Identify at least 2 characteristics of each of these.
http://www.perspective.com/nature/plantae/index.html
Flowering Plants:
Cone-bearing Plants:
Mosses:
Ferns:
Flowering and cone-bearing plants we discussed on Weds 5/16/12. We will not go into each of these today.
Bryophytes(mosses) - have life cycles that depend on water for reproduction. They lack vascular tissue and can draw
up water only a few centimeters by osmosis.
http://www.nhptv.org/natureworks/nwep14c.htm
http://scitec.uwichill.edu.bb/bcs/bl14apl/bryo1.htm
What are the 3 main groups of Bryophytes?
What is the role of a Bryophyte?
Why does a bryophyte depend on water?
Ferns - Member of phylum Pterophyta
http://www.nhptv.org/natureworks/nwep14ferns.htm
http://www.uwgb.edu/biodiversity/herbarium/pteridophytes/fern_intro01.htm
Ferns have roots, rhizomes, and fronds. Identify each and what they provide to the plant.
Ferns do not produce flowers or seeds, but rather reproduce by spores. Identify the life cycle of a fern, be sure to
include information on sporangia and sori.