GRADE 11 LIFE SCIENCES

ANSWERS for REMOTE LEARNING WORKSHEETS

WEEK 4: BRYOPHYTES, PTERIDOPHYTES, GYMNOSPERMS &

ANGIOSPERMS

1 1.1 A branching diagram/tree showing the evolutionary relationships

among various species/organisms (1)

1.2 (a) Angiosperms (1)

(b) Ferns/horsetails (1)

1.3 Palaeozoic era (1)

1.4 Development of seeds (1)

1.5 Bryophytes /mosses

Pteridophytes/ferns/horsetails (2)

1.6  Mosses/ferns/both are small plants/a prothallus 

 that need to be covered in water
 So that the male gametes/sperm cells
 can swim to the female reproductive organ /archegonium/
ovum
 using their flagella
 in order for fertilization to take place (Any 4) (4)
(11)

2. 2.1 PLANT A – Bryophyta 

PLANT B – Pteridophyta 

PLANT C – Gymnosperm 

1
 PLANT D – Angiosperm  (4)

2.2 (a) Plant A and B (2)

(b) Plant C and D (2)

2.3 They do not have true roots, vascular tissue is absent (2)
(10)

3 3.1 Both are large cities that produce significant amounts of pollution (2)

13 – 3 x 100 or 10 x 100
3.2 3 3
3,34 x 100 = 334% increase (3)

3.3  Closer to the centre of town in Pietermaritzburg and Bloemfontein

there are fewer numbers of moss plants growing due to high
levels of pollution in the environment/ the further away from the
centre of town in Pietermaritzburg and Bloemfontein there are
greater numbers of moss plants growing due to low levels of
pollution in the environment
 There are large numbers of moss plants growing close to the
centre of town in Wartburg due to low levels of pollution in the
environment
 the numbers of moss plants remain constantly high the further
away from the centre of town Any 4 (4)
(9)