Chapter 6 Plant Classification Test Review

What are the two main classifications of plants?

• seedless and seedbearing

• angiosperms and gymnosperms

• vascular and nonvascular

• monocots and dicots

Which two plants are nonvascular plants?

• club mosses and ferns

• mosses and liverworts

• gingkoes and gnetophytes

• horsetails and cycads

What are rhizoids?

• Thin, rootlike structures of nonvascular plants

• Underground stems of seedless vascular plants

• Thin, rootlike structures of vascular plants

• Underground roots of nonvascular plants

What are three kinds of seedless vascular plants?

• conifers, gnetophytes, cycads

• ferns, horsetails, club mosses

• evergreens, deciduous trees, pine trees

• annuals, perennials, biennials

Rhizomes are ___________ _____ from which seedless vascular plants grow.

Ferns have leafy branches called ______.

Which plant resembles small evergreen trees and are called ground pines?

• horsetails

• fiddleheads

• conifers

• club mosses

What are the four groups of gymnosperms?

• cycads, gingkoes, gnetophytes, conifers

• firs, spruces, pine trees, conifers

• annuals, biennials, perennial, centennials

• club mosses, horsetails, liverworts, ferns

________ is the largest group of gymnosperms.

What is the easiest way to identify a conifer?

• You look at its circumference.

• You look at its leaves.

• You look at its height.

• You look at the width of its trunk.