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Reading Study Guide Chapter 8 PLANTS  8-2 Plants Without Seeds (pp.256-260)

Nonvascular Plants (p.256-257)

1-3. List the 3 major groups of seedless plants that have no vascular tissue.

4. How do nonvascular plants get water? ______________________

5-11  Label this Moss plant

12. There are _______________ species of Mosses.

Name 2 places mosses can be found

13. ________________________     14. ___________________________

List 2 jobs of Rhizoids

15. ________________________     16. ___________________________

17. There are  _______________ species of liverworts.

18. Where are liverworts found? __________________________________

19. Wort is an old English word for ____________.

20.  There are  ____________ species of hornworts.

21. Where are hornworts found? __________________________________

Seedless Vascular Plants (p.258-259)

List 2 characteristics that ferns, mosses, and horsetails share.

22. ______________________________________

23. ______________________________________

Circle the number of each TRUE statement

24. Plants can grow tall without vascular tissue.
25. Nonvascular plants are better suited for life on land.
26. Vascular tissue transports water and food throughout a plant's body.
27. Vascular tissue gives a plant strength and stability.

28. There are  ____________ species of ferns.

29. A fern's leaves are called ___________________.

30. Where are spores found on ferns? ________________________

Circle the number of each TRUE statement

31. There are thousands of different species of club mosses and horsetails.
32. Club mosses usually grow in moist woodlands and near streams.
33. Club mosses have jointed stems with long, needlelike branches.
34. Horsetail stems contain silica, a gritty substance found in sand.

35. Label the drawing a horsetail or a club moss.