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Vocabulary
Parts of a Plant
Fruits and Seeds
Life Cycles of Seed Plants
Characteristics of Plants
100
Seeds of a plant are carried to a new place...
Seed Dispersal
100
The color and shape of ________ attract insects and other animals to the flower.
Petals
100
Seeds develop from ___________ inside the _________.
ovules, ovaries.
100
What are the two kinds of plants that make seeds?
Flowering plants and conifers.
100
Where do inherited characteristics come from?
the Parent plants.
200
The movement of pollen from the stamen to a pistil or from a male cone to a female cone...
Pollination
200
The female part of the flower.
Pistil.
200
What is the function of a fruit?
To protect the seeds and to help spread the seeds.
200
How do you know which tree is a flowering plant and which tree is a conifer?
A tree is a flowering plant because it has fruits and conifers have cones.
200
What inherited characteristics do all trees have in common?
Each tree grows upright, each has a woody stem, or trunk, that divides into branches.
300
All the stages a living thing goes through as it grows and reproduces.
Life Cycle
300
Male part of the flower.
Stamen.
300
How does it help a plant for its fruits to travel to new places?
Fruits contain seeds, and the seeds may begin growing in new places.
300
What are three differences between flowering plants and conifers?
1. Reproduce with seeds- seeds of conifers grow in cones, seeds of flowering plants form in flowers. 2. Flowering plants are mostly pollinated by animals, some by wind. Conifers are pollinated by wind. 3. Seeds in a flowering plant are in the fruit, seeds in conifers are in the cones.
300
What factors in the environment might affect the way a plant looks and grows?
Amount of sunlight, amount of water, available space for growth, wind, and human actions.
400
An egg and a sperm cell join.
Fertilization
400
The tips of the stamen are orange because they have _______.
Pollen.
400
Why is it important for a seed to have stored food?
It is the food supply that helps the embryo grow.
400
Why does an indoor fruit tree not go through fertilization and pollination?
The indoor fruit tree is not exposed to pollinators. The fertilization process can not occur if there is no pollen.
400
BONUS for 600 points (not 400) What happens if plants reproduced but never died?
There would be no room for new plants to grow. They would have to compete for food, water and sunlight.
500
Characteristic is passed down from parents to offspring.
Inherited.
500
Part of the flower that holds the ovules.
Ovary.
500
The tiny plant inside a seed is a(n)_____________
Embryo
500
Chase grows an orange tree in a pot inside his house. The tree looks healthy and it blossoms, but the blossoms never turn into oranges. What two processes are missing?
Pollination and Fertilization.
500
BONUS for 1000 points (not 500)- What are the FOUR main stages in the life cycle of a flowering plant?
Germination, Growth (of the seedling), Maturity and Seed Formation.