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Pollinators
Attractive or Not?
Hodgepodge
100
The part of the plant where pollination begins.
What is the flower?
100
For a plant to be pollinated, pollen must move from a stamen to this part of a flower.
What is the stigma?
100
A common animal pollinator that helps produce sweet honey and delicious apples.
What is a bee?
100
Two characteristics that attract animals to flowers.
What are bright colors and a strong smell.
100
What part of a plant has the job of anchoring the plant?
roots
200
The male part of the flower.
What is the stamen.
200
What is a way that seeds can travel that are large like coconuts?
What is water.
200
Two other common animal pollinators.
What are butterflies, moths, bats, or hummingbirds.
200
The natural force that picks up pollen from one plant and transfers it to another. (not an animal)
What is wind?
200
Plants without flowers reproduce using these.
What are spores?
300
The sticky powder that the stamen produces.
What is pollen?
300
What is a way that a seed from a piece of fruit is transferred?
An animal can drop it or eat it and then it lands in droppings.
300
Birds and bees visit plants to get this.
What is nectar?
300
Two characteristics of plants that are pollinated by the wind instead of an animal.
What are dully colored, unscented, small or no petals.
300
What are two examples of non-flowering plants that reproduce with spores?
mosses and ferns
400
The female part of the flower.
What is the pistil.
400
What are two ways that animals can move seeds that does NOT involve eating them?
The seeds have burs or hooks that hook on to fur. Animals might bury the seeds in the ground and then forget where they are buried.
400
This happens to pollinators when they visit a flower.
They rub against the stamens and get pollen all over themselves.
400
How does a bee or other animal get the nectar from the flower?
He uses his tongue
400
Name two functions of the fruit.
protect the seeds and carry the seeds to other places
500
The top of the female part of the flower. Hint: it's sticky
What is the stigma?
500
What is at the base of the pistil?
The ovary
500
When pollinators move to another plants flower to eat this happens.
What is some of the pollen rubs off onto the plants stigma and pollination occurs.
500
Name the three parts of the seed.
seed coat, embryo, and food supply
500
This is why pollination is very important.
What is it leads to the creation of new seeds, which grow into new plants.