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NONVASCULAR / VASCULAR

PLANTS
7TH GRADE SCIENCE MRS. ERAZO
OBJECTIVE
Classify plants into two major categories
according to their tissues
TELL THE
DIFFERENCES
CLASSIFYING PLANTS
NONVASCULAR PLANTS VASCULAR PLANTS
Lack a well-
developed system of
• Have true vascular tissue
Low-growing
tubes for moving
water • Better suited to life in dry areas
• Transport and move materials quickly
• Vascular tissue provides strength,
Do not have roots for Materials pass from
absorbing water cell to cell directly stability, and support
• Grow quite tall
• Move water throughout the plant’s
Live in damp, shady
places
Have only thin cell
walls
body
NONVASCULAR PLANTS
• Grow in sidewalk cracks, tree trunks,
Mosse and damp, shady spots
s • Have rootlike structures called rhizoids
• Slender stalk with end capsule
• Capsule contains spores

• Grow as thick crust on moist rocks on


• Seldom found on rocks or tree soil along the sides of a stream
trunks Three • Plant’s leaflike gametophyte like a
• Usually live in moist soil human liver
• Slender, curved structures that grow out
major • Have sporophytes too small to see
of the gametophytes groups • Wort means “plant”

liverwort
hornworts
s
• True vascular tissue
• Do not produce seeds
• Reproduce by releasing spores

CLUB MOSSES HORSETAILS

VASCULAR PLANTS
ASSESSMENT
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