PLANTS

PLANTS
• There are many plants all over the world.
• They grow in many different kinds of
habitats.
• The different habitats that plants grow in can
give plants different characteristics from
each other.
• So there are many ways plants are classified.
• The first way of grouping to study is the two
groups of the vascular and the nonvascular
plants.
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 Vascular plants have a translocation system.
 The translocation system is a special system
for sending food, minerals, and water.
 It is a system that connects the leaves, stems,
and roots.
 The translocation system has tubes that are
divided into two kinds.
 The phloem is on the outer part of the stem.
 The phloem sends food materials such as
sugars from the leaves, where they are made
and go to the other parts of the plant.
• The phloem is always alive.
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• If a tree is cut you can often see sap come out of the
tree and this comes from the phloem.
 The xylem are the tubes that transport water
throughout the plant.
 The xylem tubes carry water from the roots up the
plant to the leaves.
 The xylem also supports the plant, meaning it helps
the plant stand.
 Xylem tissue die after one year and develop again.
 These are the rings in the bark of the tree.
 If you count the rings in the bark of the tree, you will
know how many years the tree has lived or how old
the tree is.
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