Introduction to Plants Guided Reading and Study

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Introduction to Plants ■ Guided Reading and Study Mosses, Liverworts, and Hornworts This section describes the characteristics of nonvascular plants.

Use Target Reading Skills As you read the section, write the main idea—the biggest or most important idea— in the graphic organizer below. Then write three supporting details that give examples of the main idea.

Main Idea Nonvascular plants include...

Detail Detail Detail

Introduction 1. List two characteristics of nonvascular plants. a. ______b. ______2. Is the following sentence true or false? Nonvascular plants can become very large and tall because of their support system.______© Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Pearson Prentice Hall. All rights reserved. Name______Date______Class______

Introduction to Plants ■ Guided Reading and Study

Mosses, Liverworts, and Hornworts (continued)

3. How do nonvascular plants get water?

4. Is the following true or false? Nonvascular plants must have water to let the sperm cells swim to the egg cells.______

Mosses 5. Label and circle the gametophyte and the sporophyte in the diagram of the moss. 6. Thin, rootlike structures that anchor moss and absorb water and nutrients from the soil are called

7. Describe the sporophyte generation of a moss.

Introduction to Plants ■ Guided Reading and Study 8. Circle the letter of each way people use peat moss. a. as food b. in gardening c. as a fuel d. as cloth 9. Is the following sentence true or false? Peat moss forms in bogs where dead plants do not decay, but are pressed into layers as they fall to the bottom of the bog.______

Liverworts and Hornworts 10. Where are liverworts often found growing?

11. Is the following sentence true or false? There are more species of hornworts than there are liverworts.______