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Pollinators
Attractive or Not?
pollinator preferences
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

bees like?

yellow flowers with a smell

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

what do beetles like in a flower?

larger sturdy flowers to crawl around in.

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
what do hummingbirds like?

red flowers with a long tube shape

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

Name a plant that is wind pollinated.

answers will vary but mostly plants without large visible flowers.

400

bats and moths like what in a flower?

flowers with a strong smell that open at night?
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

wind pollinated plants need to make more or less pollen

more

500

This is why pollination is very important.

What is it leads to the creation of new seeds, which grow into new plants.