Potato
Vegetable
What do bees do to help flowers?
They move pollen from one flower to the next
It is the sticky center part of a flower
Sticky Stigma
Any animal that helps to move pollen is called a...
pollinator
When is our test?
Cucumber
Science Fruit
Bees drink this from flowers
Nectar
It has seeds and usually tastes sweet
fruit
Sugary liquid bees and butterflies like to drink
Nectar
Who drinks nectar from flowers?
Bees, butterflies, hummingbirds
Tomato
Science Fruit
The powdery stuff that can be moved from one flower to another
Pollen
The bottom of the flower where the seeds are located. Starts with an "O"
Ovary
Contains no seeds, does not taste sweet
vegetable
How do plant growers make different varieties of plants?
They look for plants with different traits and only use seeds from those to create more plants (example: number of petals on a wild rose and a rose from the floral store)
Celery
Science Vegetable
Honey is made using this
Nectar
Using selection to change a wild plant, we create another words for difference
variety
This word means you "get traits" from your parents.
inherit
How can a food item be both a fruit and a vegetable
It depends on who you ask. A scientist will say if it has seeds, it is a fruit. A chef would say that it goes off of taste (example: green pepper)
Science fruit - has seeds
Science vegetable - no seeds
A bee crawls into a flower and brushes against what part of the flower?
Pollen dusters
Process that plant growers use to make bigger and better varieties of plants
selection
Color, shape, size are examples of...
traits
How do flowers help bees?
They give the bees nectar to drink and this can be used for honey.