At this stage of a plant's life cycle, it can reproduce and create seeds.
What is maturity?
100
The part of the seed that grows into a new plant.
What is an embryo?
100
A trait passed down from parents to offspring.
What is an inherited trait?
100
This type of plant reproduces using cones.
What is a conifer?
100
Most flowering plants are most often pollinated this way.
What is by animals or insects?
200
The process by which seeds move from one place to another.
What is seed dispersal?
200
The type of cone that produces the pollen of a conifer.
What is a male cone?
200
A trait that appears when a plant grows in soil that is low in nutrients, or when an animal comes to nibble on the leaves of a plant.
What is a trait that is affected by the environment?
200
This type of plant reproduces using flowers.
What is a flowering plant?
200
All conifers are pollinated this way.
What is the wind?
300
The process during which a sperm cell joins with an egg cell.
What is fertilization?
300
The part of the flower that makes the pollen.
What is the tip of the stamen (or anther)?
300
The color of a plant's petals shows this type of trait.
What is an example of an inherited trait?
300
This is the female part of the flower.
What is the pistil?
300
"Hooks" on the outside of a seed would aid in what process?
What is seed dispersal?
400
The four main stages in the life cycle of flowering plants
What are germination, growth, maturity, seed formation?
400
The part of the flower that becomes a seed.
What is an ovule?
400
The growth of a plant being impacted by the amount of sunlight it receives would show this type of characteristic.
What is an example of a characteristic that is affected by the environment?
400
This is the part of the flower that houses the ovules, or eggs.
What is the ovary?
400
This is the reason that bees visit flowers.
What is gathering nectar?
500
An indoor fruit tree does not have the opportunity to go through these two process, so its flowers never turn into fruit.
What are the processes of pollination and fertilization?
500
This is the part of the flower that attracts bees and other insects, in order to facilitate pollination.
What is the flower's petals?
500
The pattern of a tree's branches, the thickness of its trunk, the shape of its leaves, or the taste of its fruit are all examples of this type of characteristic.
What are inherited characteristics?
500
These are the two different types of cones that every conifer produces in order to reproduce.
What is male and female cones?
500
The process that ensures that the life cycle of plants never ends, despite the fact that individual plants die.