You can eat the apple when it_______.
a. protects
b. ripens
c. streams
d. nutrition
b.ripens
5
The beginning of a new plant is inside a ________.
a. flower
b. petal
c. shoot
d. seed
d. seed
5
Pollen moves from flower to flower. Seeds scatter in many directions. What can make both these things happen?
a. wind
b. water
c. nectar
d. squirrels
a. wind
5
When the seed begins to grow, it is called _______.
a. pollination
b. direction
c. germination
d. nutrition
c. germination
5
Your flowers are __________.
a. nutrition
b. protects
c. between
d. beautiful
d. beautiful
5
Which is true about all seeds?
a. Seeds grow into the kind of plant they came from.
b. All seeds have the same shape.
c. All seeds look the same.
d. All seeds are the same color.
a. Seeds grow into the kind of plant they came from.
5
Having hooks that stick to fur, floating on water, and being buried by animals are all ways that __________.
a. plants protect themselves
b. seeds get to different places
c. flowers get pollen
d. sprouts grow
b. seeds get to different places
5
People eat some seeds, fruits, and pods because______.
a. they are full of nutrition
b. the plants have pretty flowers.
c. they grow in the ground
d. the roots take in water
a. they are full of nutrition
5
We saw fish in the ______.
a. beautiful
b. streams
c. nutrition
d. protects
b. streams
5
Flowers have parts called stamens. Stamens make ________.
a. fruit
b. berries
c. nectar
d. pollen
d. pollen
5
How are a seed coat and the fruit or pod around a seed alike?
a. They make seeds pretty.
b. They protect seeds.
c. They make seeds open up.
d. They make seeds full of poison.
b. They protect seeds.
5
This book is ___________.
a. a play
b. fiction
c. a tall tale
d. nonfiction
d. nonfiction
5
We need to eat many foods to have good_______.
a. protects
b. beautiful
c. nutrition
d. ripens
c. nutrition
5
After flowers are pollinated, they _____.
a. make nectar
b. begin to make seeds
c. become sweet tasting
d. begin to bloom
b. begin to make seeds
5
What three things does a seed need to start growing?
a. soil, water, nectar
b. soil, pollen, sun
c. water, salt, sun
d. soil, water, sun
d. soil, water, sun
5
How do insects move pollen from flower to flower?
They pick up pollen on their bodies while visiting one flower and carry it to another flower.
5
Some animals have a fur coat that ______them from the cold.
a. protects
b. ripens
c. beautiful
d. streams
a. protects
5
When are seeds ready to become new plants?
a. before the fruit or pods get ripe
b. after the fruit or pods get ripe
c. before the flower is pollinated
d. after the flower is pollinated
b. after the fruit or pods get ripe
5
Why does a seed need roots?
a. to get sunlight
b. to germinate
c. to get water and minerals
d. to get air
c. to get water and minerals
5
Why did the author write this book?
To explain how plants make seeds and seeds become plants.