General
Name two characteristics that attract animals/insects to flowers.
Bright colors, strong smell.
What is the part of the flower that helps attract the attendion of pollinators and is usually brightly colored?
Petals
An insect that sometimes has sacks on its legs to collect pollen.
Bee
Give a definition of self pollination.
The transfer of pollen from the anther of a flower on one plant to the stigma of a flower on another plant.
What is the male part of the flower called?
Stamen
In a pollinator garden, is it better to plant lots of different kinds of plants or lots of the same type of plant?
Lots of different kinds of plants for diversity.
What is the sticky powder that the stamen produces?
Pollen
Name five common pollinators.
Bees, butterflies, moths, flies, hummingbirds, ants, beetles, wasps, plus many more.
What is the part of the plant where pollination begins?
The flower.
What is the female part of the flower called?
Pistil
What is the natural force that picks up pollen from one plant and blows it onto another?
Wind.
What do we call the juice or water found in flowers that attracts birds and other pollinators?
Nectar
This pollinator is responsible for pollinating 80% of flowers.
Bee
Name a disadvantage of self pollination.
Seeds are in smaller quantities/no new varieties can be created/immunity of the offspring decreases.
Do pollinators get diseases?
Yes, just like people, pollinators can be impacted by a wide variety of diseases.
For a plant to be pollinated, pollen must move from a stamen to (what) part of a flower?
Pistil
Name five ways that pollen can be transferred.
Wind, insects, water, birds, insects, animals, humans.
What pollinator has wings but is a mamal?
Bat
Which of the two pollinations produces stronger plants?
Cross pollination.
Why do plants need to reproduce?
So they can propagate and won't become extinct.
When pollen from the stamen of a plant is transferred to the pistil of the same plant.
Self pollination.
What is the main pollinator for corn plants and most other cereal crop plants in the grass family?
Wind
Name a pollinator that has been around since the dinosaurs.
Beetle
What is one advantage of cross pollination?
Offspring are healthier than using self pollination/seeds are produced in larger quantities/cross pollination provides a greater variety of species.
Is the number of pollinators in our world increasing or decreasing and why?
Habitat decreasing because of new construction of roads, houses and businesses and also pesticides.