Seeds
What is the tiny beginning of a new plant called?
A seed
This plant part grows underground and takes in water. It also anchors them to the grow when it is windy or wet.
Roots
Plants need this from the sun to make food.
Sunlight
These colorful plant parts attract animals.
Flowers
Some seeds, like coconuts, float to new places using this.
Water
This part inside a seed grows into a new plant.
The embryo
This plant part holds the plant up and carries water to all of its parts.
Stem
Plants drink water through this part.
Roots
This powder helps plants make seeds.
Pollen
Animals can carry seeds on their fur and spread them to new locations. Another way that animals can spread seeds is by....
Eating them and pooping them somewhere else
This outer covering protects the seed.
The seed coat, I will also accept "fruit"
This young plant part grows upward from the seed.
Shoot
Many plants get nutrients from this substance.
Soil
Name more than one animal that can help move pollen.
Bee, butterfly, hummingbird, bat, etc.
A dandelion seed is usually spread by ________.
Wind
Seeds need space, air, warmth, and this to begin growing.
water
Which plant part usually makes seeds?
Flower
The process plants use to make food is called ________.
Photosynthesis
True or False: Flowers can help plants reproduce.
True
Name more than one way seeds can travel to new places.
Wind, water, animals, or people
A flower makes seeds. The seeds fall to the ground, grow roots, then a shoot grows upward. Once this plant is an adult it makes seeds of its own. This cycle is called a __________ cycle.
Life Cycle
Which plant part helps make food using sunlight?
Leaves
Name more than one thing plants need to live.
Water, sunlight, air, nutrients, or space
This is the word for animals that spread pollen.
Pollinators
Some seeds are carried away by the wind. Why is this a good thing?