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Pollinators
Attractive or Not?
Anyone for a cone?
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
An example of a cone-bearing plant.pine or spruce tree
What is a pine or spruce tree?
200
The male part of the flower.
What is the stamen.
200
When pollen from a plant's stamen is transferred to that same plants stigma.
What is self-pollination.
200
Two other common animal pollinators.
What are butterflies, moths, flies, or hummingbirds.
200
The natural force that picks up pollen from one plant and blows it onto another.
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
When pollen is transferred to a different plant's stigma.
What is cross-pollination?
300
Animals visit plants to get this.
What is food.
300
Two characteristics of plants that are pollinated by the wind.
What are dully colored, unscented, small or no petals.
300
Spores travel from the male cone to a female cone to do this.
What is reproduce?
400
The female part of the flower.
What is the pistil.
400
This type of pollination produces stronger plants.
What is cross-pollination?
400
This accident occurs when animals visit flowers.
They rub against the stamens and get pollen all over themselves.
400
Good one word description of plants that are pollinated by the wind.
What is unattractive?
400
The seeds of a fern develop here.
What is a female cone.
500
The top of the female part of the flower. Hint: it's sticky
What is the stigma?
500
At the base of the pistil, in the ovule.
Where are seeds made in flowering plants?
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
These plants often have long stamens and pistils.
What are plants that are pollinated by wind?
500
This is why pollination is very important.
What is it leads to the creation of new seeds, which grow into new plants.