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Classifying plants – practice for Years 6–7

Sample questions on Classifying plants with the right answer and a worked solution, from easy to hard. In the Pickles Academy app a child gets new questions of the same kind every time, so they can't just learn the answers by heart.

Subject
Biology
Year
Years 6–7
Curriculum area
Plant biology

Question types: Classify the plant

Rule: Classifying plants

Mosses and ferns have no flowers or seeds: they reproduce by spores.

Gymnosperms (conifers) carry their seeds bare on the scales of cones. Flowering plants have flowers and seeds inside a fruit.

Example: Spruce and yew are gymnosperms, oak and tulip are flowering plants, horsetail is a fern relative.

Watch out: A fern doesn’t flower or make seeds: the brown dots under its leaves hold spores.

Sample questions

  1. Question 1 Easy

    Which plant is a moss or a liverwort?

    1. A) Scots pine
    2. B) apple tree
    3. C) male fern
    4. D) European larch
    5. E) liverwort
    Show the solution
    Answer: E) liverwort

    How it works: Scots pine – gymnosperms (conifers); apple tree – flowering plants (angiosperms); male fern – ferns and their relatives; European larch – gymnosperms (conifers); liverwort – mosses and liverworts

  2. Question 2 Normal

    Which plant is a moss or a liverwort?

    1. A) liverwort
    2. B) male fern
    3. C) dog rose
    4. D) dandelion
    5. E) field horsetail
    Show the solution
    Answer: A) liverwort

    How it works: liverwort – mosses and liverworts; male fern – ferns and their relatives; dog rose – flowering plants (angiosperms); dandelion – flowering plants (angiosperms); field horsetail – ferns and their relatives

  3. Question 3 Hard

    Which plant is a fern or one of its relatives?

    1. A) male fern
    2. B) haircap moss
    3. C) wheat
    4. D) tulip
    5. E) English oak
    Show the solution
    Answer: A) male fern

    How it works: male fern – ferns and their relatives; haircap moss – mosses and liverworts; wheat – flowering plants (angiosperms); tulip – flowering plants (angiosperms); English oak – flowering plants (angiosperms)

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