You can eat the apple when it_______.
a. protects
b. ripens
c. streams
d. nutrition
b.ripens
100
The beginning of a new plant is inside a ________.
a. flower
b. petal
c. shoot
d. seed
d. seed
100
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
100
When the seed begins to grow, it is called _______.
a. pollination
b. direction
c. germination
d. nutrition
c. germination
200
Your flowers are __________.
a. nutrition
b. protects
c. between
d. beautiful
d. beautiful
200
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.
200
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
200
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
300
We saw fish in the ______.
a. beautiful
b. streams
c. nutrition
d. protects
b. streams
300
Flowers have parts called stamens. Stamens make ________.
a. fruit
b. berries
c. nectar
d. pollen
d. pollen
300
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.
300
This book is ___________.
a. a play
b. fiction
c. a tall tale
d. nonfiction
d. nonfiction
400
We need to eat many foods to have good_______.
a. protects
b. beautiful
c. nutrition
d. ripens
c. nutrition
400
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
400
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
400
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.
500
Some animals have a fur coat that ______them from the cold.
a. protects
b. ripens
c. beautiful
d. streams
a. protects
500
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
500
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
500
Why did the author write this book?
To explain how plants make seeds and seeds become plants.