5th Grade Science (How are Plants Classified)

How do vascular plants reproduce?

By seeds that contain developing plant and stored food. Beans, nuts, berries, and grains are seeds or fruit that contain seeds Flowers contain the reproductive parts of flowering plants

2 types of Flowering Plants

Monocot Dicot

4 different categories of plants

Mosses, Ferns, Conifers, and Flowering Plants.

What are Conifers?

Often called evergreens ​* Vascular plants * trees and shrubs - includes pines, cedars, firs, yews, and spruces * most don't lose their leaves. ​* most leaves are long, narrow needles ​* flowerless ​* Produce seeds in 2 types of cones: pollen cone & seed cone

Difference between a Pollen Cone and a Seed Cone?

Pollen cone - releases dust like pollen into the air - carried by the wind Seed cone - has a sticky covering and has egg cells inside it. If a pollen grain lands on a seed cone, a tube grows into an egg cell and a seed develops. The seed falls out and could grow into a new plant.

How are Plants Classified

Vascular or Non-Vascular

What are Monocots?

a flowering plant with one seed-leaf (grasses, corn, wheat, rice, lilies, orchids) - have parallel veins in their leaves - have a tap root - have petals in groups of 3

What are Dicots?

a flowering plant with two seed-leaves (most trees, roses, tomatoes, and dandelions) - have net veined leaves - have fibrous roots - have petals in groups of 5

Vascular plants?

have long tubes inside that carries food and water to all the parts of the plant. The tubes also strengthen and support the plant.

What are Mosses?

​* Non-vascular plants ​* most live in moist places ​* food & water pass slowly from one cell to another to get to different parts of the plant ​* usually small and grow near the ground ​* no roots, leaves, seeds, or flowers ​* green parts of the plant use the sun's energy to make food ​* reproduce by spores: tiny cells that grow into new plants

What are Ferns?

​* Vascular Plants ​* live in moist, warm climates in damp, shady places (some live in dry, cold places) * flowerless, seedless plants that reproduce by spores found on the underside of the fern's leaves * wind carries the spores away from the parent plant ​* green leaves use energy from sunlight to make food (sugar)

What are Flowering Plants?

​* Vascular plants ​* Grasses, Oak trees, peach trees, or flowers with blossoms on it ​* Flowers are reproductive part of the plant - fruits and seeds develop from the flowers ​*Classified into 2 main groups based on the number of leaflike structures inside their seeds Monocots or Dicots ​