The transfer of pollen from the stamen to the top of the pistil.
What is pollination?
100
The part of the plant that grows around and protects the seed.
What is fruit?
100
Grouping things that have similar characteristics.
What is classifying?
100
A young plant without flowers.
What is a seedling?
100
The most colorful part of a plant.
What are flowers?
200
Pollination is necessary for these to form.
What are seeds?
200
What does disperse mean?
To spread.
200
Plants that produce their seeds in cones.
What are conifers?
200
New plants are always ___________ to the parent plants.
What is similar?
200
A scientist who studies plants.
What is a botanist?
300
All things make copies of themselves, or ____________.
What is reproduce?
300
Flowering plants can be grouped by whether their seeds have _______ or _______ cotyledons.
What is one or two?
300
This kind of plant does not have tubes. It soaks up water like a sponge.
What are mosses?
300
When a seed sprouts, we call this _______________.
What is germination?
300
Name two of the four ways plants can reproduce without seeds.
What are runners, tubers, bulbs, and cuttings?
400
This part of the plant produces the pollen.
What is stamen?
400
The stored food in a seed.
What is cotyledon?
400
These kinds of plants lose their leaves once a year, usually after the growing season.
What are deciduous plants?
400
Name the three conditions most seeds need to germinate.
Water, the proper temperature, and air.
400
Plants that produce seeds.
What are flowering plants?
500
Name the three ways plants can be pollinated.
They can pollinate themselves, the pollen can be carried by the wind, and the pollen can be carried by animals or insects.
500
Name three ways seeds can be dispersed.
They can be dispersed by the wind, by water, by animals, or by humans.
500
Name three ways we can classify plants.
Tubes or no tubes
Seeds or spores
Flowers or cones
500
Put the following steps of a plant's life cycle in order:
A. A seedling grows
B. The seeds disperse
C. Flowers grow, and the plant matures.
D. A seed germinates.
E. The plant produces fruit.
F. An insect pollinates the plant.
D, A, C, F, E, B
500
These are smaller than a seed and do not have any stored food.