| A | B |
| cuticle | a wax, water proof layer that covers the leaves of most plants |
| tissue | groups of similar cells that perform specific functions |
| vascular tissue | an internal system of tube like structures through which food and water move |
| fertilization | When a sperm cell unites with an egg cell. |
| zygote | fertilized egg |
| sporophyte | a plant that produces spores |
| gametophyte | a plant that produces two kinds of sex cells |
| gamete | sperm cells and egg cells |
| nonvascular plant | low growing plants that lack vascular tissue |
| rhizoid | thin root like structures that anchor moss and absorb water and nutrients |
| bog | A place where Sphagum moss grows in a this type of wetland |
| peat | Mosses that become compressed into layers and form a blackish-brown material |
| vascular plant | plants that have vascular tissue |
| frond | fern's leaves |
| hydroponics | method by which plants are grown in solutions of nutrients instead of soil |