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Plant Concept Map

There may be over a half-million species of plants growing on Earth. Many have not even been identified yet or classified. Scientists have an enormous task as they try to locate, identify, and classify new species. They use a man-made classification system and apply it to nature to gain more organization and understanding of the natural world. Directions: Complete the classification concept map about common plants using the terms provided. Plants

(lacks transport tissue, ground hugging)

(taller plants with transport tissue)

(most abundant in wet places)

(liver shaped leaves)

Seedless Plants

Seed Plants

(most numerous seedless has leafy fronds)

(stem may not have leaves)

(only plant left of this group)

(cone bearing plants)

(has flowers to make seeds)

Terms: non-vascular vascular fern liverworts horsetail gingko conifer owering mosses

KC 4 Science

2008 Kent ISD

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Plant Concept Map (Answer Key)

There may be over a half-million species of plants growing on Earth. Many have not even been identified yet or classified. Scientists have an enormous task as they try to locate, identify, and classify new species. They use a man-made classification system and apply it to nature to gain more organization and understanding of the natural world. Directions: Complete the classification concept map about common plants using the terms provided. Plants non-vascular
(lacks transport tissue, ground hugging)

vascular
(taller plants with transport tissue)

mosses
(most abundant in wet places)

liverworts
(liver shaped leaves)

Seedless Plants

Seed Plants

fern
(most numerous seedless has leafy fronds)

horsetail
(stem may not have leaves)

gingko
(only plant left of this group)

conifer
(cone bearing plants)

flowering
(has flowers to make seeds)

Terms: non-vascular vascular fern liverworts horsetail gingko conifer owering mosses

KC 4 Science

2008 Kent ISD