Plants Without Seeds

1. When a male sex cell and a female sex cell join together ______________________ takes place.

Fertilization

New plant growth

Flowering

Planting

2. The leaves of a fern cell are called _________________.

Leaf

Rhizome

Spore cases

Fronds

3. Ferns are ________________ plants.

Vascular

Nonvascular

Big

Ancient

4. The hairlike fibers that hold mosses to the ground are called
__________________.

Rhizomes

Spores

Fronds

Rhizoids

5. The production of spores is a form of ________________ reproduction.

Asexual

Fertilization

Sexual

Typical

6. Look at the moss lifecycle on page A62, a new moss plant begins to grow when what is released?

Fertilized egg

Spores

Leafy moss

Rhizoids

7. Mosses grow from special cells called _________________________

Cells

Spores

Fronds

Rhizoids

8. Does a new leafy fern plant grow from spores or from a fertlized egg?
Look at diagram on page A63.

Grows from spores

Grows from fertilized egg

9. The stage when a plant needs both male and femal sex cells in order to reproduce is called _____________________ reproduction.

Fertilization

Sexual

Spores

Asexual

10. The development of different types of plants were in which order?

Nonvascular, Ferns, Gymnosperms, Angiosperms

Ferns, Nonvascular, Gymnosperms, Angiosperms

Gymnosperms, Angiosperms, Nonvascular, Ferns

Angiosperms, Gymnosperms, Nonvascular, Ferns

11. Looking at the Fern lifecycle diagram on page A63, what step takes place after the FERTILIZED EGG stage?

New leafy fern plant

Egg is fertilized

Spores travel

Male and female branches produce cells

12. The first land plants were what type of plants?

Vascular

Nonvascular

Spore bearing

Flowering

13. Ferns and mosses are alike by

Both are vascular plants

Both are nonvascular plants

Both produce flowers.

Both reproduce by spores.

14. Looking at the moss lifecycle diagram on page A62, what happens when the sperm joins the egg?

The spore case pops open releasing spores.

A new moss plant grows

A fertilized egg is produced.

A leafy moss is produced.

15. The ancestor of all land plants today was what photosynthetic organism?

Ferns

Spores

Protists

Green algae

16. The first land plants to develop from algae were similar to __________________.

Vascular

Mosses

Ferns

Nonvascular

17. The spore cases for a fern are located where?

On the stem

On the top of the fronds

On the rhizome

On the bottom of the fronds

18. Fronds grow above the ground from an underground stem called a _______________.

Rhizoid

Rhizome

Root

Taproot

19. Looking at the diagram on page A62, what grows from the fertilized egg?

Leafy moss

A spore case.

New moss plant

Male and female branches.

20. The alternation of generations is

The process of going from asexual reproduction to sexual reproduction with each generation.

The process of skipping generations in reproduction.

The process of going from sexual reproduction to asexual reproduction with each generation.

Three consecutive generations reproducing by sexual reproduction then three generations reproducing by asexual reproduction.

21. Looking at the Fern lifecycle on page A63, after the spores are released, what is the next stage in the cycle?

Fertilized egg

A small heart shaped plant is produced

Male and female branches produce cells

New leafy fern plant

Plants Without Seeds

1. When a male sex cell and a female sex cell join together ______________________ takes place.

2.

What first name or nickname would you like us to use?

2. The leaves of a fern cell are called _________________.

3. Ferns are ________________ plants.

4. The hairlike fibers that hold mosses to the ground are called __________________.

5. The production of spores is a form of ________________ reproduction.

6. Look at the moss lifecycle on page A62, a new moss plant begins to grow when what is released?

7. Mosses grow from special cells called _________________________

8. Does a new leafy fern plant grow from spores or from a fertlized egg?Look at diagram on page A63.

9. The stage when a plant needs both male and femal sex cells in order to reproduce is called _____________________ reproduction.

10. The development of different types of plants were in which order?

11. Looking at the Fern lifecycle diagram on page A63, what step takes place after the FERTILIZED EGG stage?

12. The first land plants were what type of plants?

13. Ferns and mosses are alike by

14. Looking at the moss lifecycle diagram on page A62, what happens when the sperm joins the egg?

15. The ancestor of all land plants today was what photosynthetic organism?

16. The first land plants to develop from algae were similar to __________________.

17. The spore cases for a fern are located where?

18. Fronds grow above the ground from an underground stem called a _______________.

19. Looking at the diagram on page A62, what grows from the fertilized egg?

20. The alternation of generations is

21. Looking at the Fern lifecycle on page A63, after the spores are released, what is the next stage in the cycle?

4. The hairlike fibers that hold mosses to the ground are called
__________________.

8. Does a new leafy fern plant grow from spores or from a fertlized egg?
Look at diagram on page A63.