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Plant Classification Worksheet

1. This document contains a worksheet with questions to classify different types of plants. It covers topics like nonvascular plants, gymnosperms, angiosperms, dicots, autotrophs, plant cell structures, and key terms like chloroplasts, vacuoles, and photosynthesis. 2. Students are asked to identify true/false statements and fill in blanks about the characteristics and structures of different plant groups. Questions cover the differences between mosses, liverworts, and hornworts; seed-bearing plants; dicot traits; what autotrophs are; structures found in plant but not animal cells; descriptions of gymnosperms; and more. 3. The worksheet aims to test students'

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Plant Classification Worksheet

1. This document contains a worksheet with questions to classify different types of plants. It covers topics like nonvascular plants, gymnosperms, angiosperms, dicots, autotrophs, plant cell structures, and key terms like chloroplasts, vacuoles, and photosynthesis. 2. Students are asked to identify true/false statements and fill in blanks about the characteristics and structures of different plant groups. Questions cover the differences between mosses, liverworts, and hornworts; seed-bearing plants; dicot traits; what autotrophs are; structures found in plant but not animal cells; descriptions of gymnosperms; and more. 3. The worksheet aims to test students'

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Name: ___________________________________ Period: _______________

CLASSIFYING PLANTS
DIRECTIONS: Write the letter of the correct answer in the box to the left.
1. Which of the following is NOT true of mosses, liverworts, & hornworts?
a. They are nonvascular plants.
b. They have true roots.
c. They grow in moist places.
d. They are small and low-growing.

2. Which type of plant has seeds that are encased in protective fruit?
a. Gymnosperms
b. Conifers
c. Angiosperms
d. Horsetails

3. Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of a DICOT?


a. Two cotyledons
b. Vascular tissue bundles arranged in an organized ring.
c. Floral parts in multiples of three.
d. On main root (taproot).
4. Organisms that produce their own food are called:
a. Heterotrophs
b. Autosomes
c. Autotrophs
d. Herbivores

5. The sac in a plant cell that holds waste, food & water is called:
a. Vacuole
b. Chloroplast
c. Chlorophyll
d. Cuticle

6. Two structures found in plant cells but NOT in an animal cell are:
a. Cell wall & cell membrane
b. Chloroplasts & cell membrane
c. Cell wall & chloroplasts
d. Vacuole & nucleus

7. Which statement best describes a gymnosperm?


a. Nonvascular, with roots, stems & leaves
b. Low-growing, nonvascular plant without true roots.
c. Vascular plant that uses spores to reproduce.
d. Vascular plant that uses seeds not in fruit to reproduce.

DIRECTIONS: Write true or false in the blank to the left of the statement. If it is false,
write the correct word in the blank at the end of the statement.
8. ____________ Seedless vascular plants use spores to reproduce. _____________
9. ____________ The young leaves of some mosses are called fiddleheads. _____________
10.____________The vascular tissue that transport water & nutrients is called phloem.
____________________

11.____________ All flowering plants are gymnosperms. _____________


12.____________The root like structures that anchor a moss and absorb water and nutrients
are called rhizomes. ____________
13.____________ Angiosperm species outnumber all other land plant species. ____________
14. ____________ The cell wall helps a plant retain water. ____________
15. ____________ During photosynthesis, plants produce carbon dioxide. ____________
16. ____________ The green pigment in plants is called chlorophyll. ____________
17. ____________ The system of tubes in a plant are called root tissue. ____________
18. ____________ Nearly all plants are unicellular. ____________
19. ____________ The energy for photosynthesis comes from the sun. ____________
20. ____________ Pteridophytes have parts that are called fronds & blades. ___________

DIRECTIONS: Fill in the blank with the correct vocabulary term.


21. A group of similar cells that perform a specific function are called a(n) _____________.
22. A(n) _______________ is a structure inside a plant’s cell in which food is made.
23. The process by which plants make food is called: ________________________.
24. A seed leaf is called a(n) ___________________.
25. The leaf of a fern is called a(n) _________________________.

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