The wonders of the world

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CHIARI

2014

PLANTS AND PLANT GROUPS

ALL OF THEM CLASSIFIED INTO TWO GROUPS

NONFLOWERING PLANTS

FLOWERING PLANTS

NONFLOWERING PLANTS

Nonflowering plants are the smallest groupsThey never produce flowers or seeds. They produce with spores.They grow in dark, humid forest.

NONFLOWERING PLANTS

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MossesFerns

Mosses are very short plants with tiny stem, leaf and root structures.

Moss spores are produced in a capsule at the end of a filament

Ferns are much larger than mosses. They have thick, underground stems and large leaves.

FLOWERING PLANTS

Flowering plants form the most numerous, diverse plant groups.

They produce flowers and seeds to reproduce.

Flowering plants

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Gymnosperms Angiosperms

GYMNOSPERMS have small, simple flowers without a corola or calyx. They do not produce fruit. The seeds are grouped together in cones. Cypress trees, pines and firs are gymnosperms.

ANGIOSPERMS have large, beautiful flowers. They produce seeds and fruit. This is the largest plant group. It includes trees, bushes and grasses.

Angiosperms that lose all their leaves in autumn are called Deciduous plants.

Flower

Fruit

PRACTICE

ACTIVITIES

Label each part

roots

flowers

stem

leaves

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2

3

4

Complete the word map:

gymnosperms

Nonflowering plants angiospermsmosses

ferns

PLANTS

flowering plants