Vocab
A plant starts its life in this form
The brightly colored part that contains the plants pollen
A Flower
An observable feature
Trait
True or false: the offspring of an apple tree could make lemons
False (the type of fruit a plant makes is inherited from their parents)
Specials
To _____ is the act of a sprout growing from a seed
Germinate
The first part of the plant that grows out of the seed
Sprout
Inherited traits are traits that offspring get from
Their parents
True or False: the offspring of a purple plant and an orange plant is going to be red
False (it could be purple, orange, or both)
What 2 things do you need to have on the top of all of your papers?
Name and Number
Traits that come from parents
Inherited Traits
This is the edible structure that protects the plants seeds
Fruit
Name one trait we used to help group fruit in our card activity
Any of these: (inside, outside, leaves, flowers)
True or False: the offspring of a blue plant could also be blue
True
A trait that you can see is an _______ trait
Observable
An inherited trait that makes family members different
Variation
This is the structure that makes and protects seeds
Cones
Citrus
True or false: The offspring of 2 orange plants could make blueberries
False
Bees are an example of this category of animals that help fertilize plants
Pollinators
The seeds produced by a plant result in ______ that carry on that plants traits
Offspring
Name all 4 of the life stages that we put in our plant flipbook
What was the name of out mystery fruit
Buddas Hand
True
Entomology is the study of
Insects