Chapter 6 Plants
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Chapter 6 Plants
There are 350,000 species of plants
Features
chloroplasts
chlorophyll---chemicals that give
plants green color and trap light energy.
Plants are producers, lowest life on the
food chain
Plants have a stiff cell wall
Vascular Plants
Features
Vascular plants Tube-like
cells
True stems
True roots
True leaves
Types of tube-like cells
Xylem cells
Thick walled cells that carry water and
dissolved minerals to the leaves
Phloem cells
Carry food from the leaves to all parts
of the plant
Nonvascular Plants
Moss, liverworts
No true roots
No true stems
No true leaves
• Life cycle of a moss
• Sexual reproduction, union of 2 reproductive
cells
• Takes place at the tips of the stems
Ferns
Form coal
Is a vascular plant
Reproduces with spores
Because they are a vascular plant
they can grow taller than
nonvascular plants. Why?
There are over 12,000 known
species of ferns
More on Ferns
Ferns are over 300 million years old
Have xylem and phloem cells
Leaves are divided into tiny leaflets
Similar to nonvascular plants in that
they reproduce with spores
Refer to the figure 6-7 in chapter 6
Seed plants
Most common land plants
Reproduce by forming seeds
A seed is the part of the plant
that contains a new, young plant
and stored food
The young plant in the seed is the
embryo
Seed plants continued
Seed has a hard outer covering
called the seed coat which protects
the embryo
The food supply and the coat help
the embryo survive for long periods
of time, until conditions are right for
growth
Conifers
Most common land plants
Produces seeds in cones
Keep their leaves throughout the
year
Sometimes called evergreens
Mostly found in the northern areas
of the world
Conifers continued
Leaves are small and needle-shaped
Pine, spruce, fir are examples of
conifers
Copy figure 6-10 into your notebook
Conifers reproduce with cones, small
cones are male and produce pollen
in which sperm develop
Male cones open early in spring
Conifers Continued
Wind carries the pollen to the larger
female cones
Female cones contain egg cells
When the seeds are ripe, the cones dry
up and open and the fertilized seeds fall
to the ground
The roots and stems of conifers are hard
and woody
Conifers supply ¾ of the lumber that is
used in the world
Conifers are not only important to us
but they are also a important food
source and shelter for animals such
as insects, birds, squirrels, rabbits
Flowering Plants
Produces seeds inside a flower
Flower is the reproductive part of
Produces flowers and forms fruits
a plant
Male part produces sperm
Female part produces the egg
Female parts form the fruit that
protects the seeds
Flowering Plants cont.
Many broadleaved trees, vegetables,
grasses,weeds and thorn bushes
have flowers, not just sweet
smelling showy flowers
Many produce flowers at a certain
time of year, used for decoration
Some parts you can eat, oranges,
potatoes
Flowering Plants
Without plants no other animals
would exist
All animals depend on plants for
food, and oxygen