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Chapter 3 plants
Lesson 2
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Non-vascular plant | Non-vascular plants are low growing, have thin cell walls and do not have roots for absorbing water from the ground |
| Rhizoid | The route like structure wall |
| Vascular plant | Vascular plants are plants with true vascular tissue vascular plants can grow tall because their vascular tissue provides an effective way of transporting materials throughout the plant |
| Phloem | Flow is a vascular tissue through which food moves |
| Xylem | The roots of sword, water, and minerals from the soil |
| Pollen | instead he plants produce shiny structures that contain the cells that will later become sperm cells |
| Seed | a seed is a structure that contains a young plant inside a protective covering |
| Gymnosperm | A plant that produces seeds directly on the scales of cones, not enclosed by the protective fruit |
| Angiosperm | a flowering plant that produces seeds enclosed in a protective fruit |
| Pigment | a colored chemical compound that absorbs light |
| Know the information and how our plants classified | see handout |
| describe the difference between phloem xylem | what is a vascular tissue through which food moves and xylem the roots, absorb water and minerals from the soil? |