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Pollinators
Attractive or Not?
structure and function
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 is the function of the anther

to produce pollen

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 adaptation do pollinators have for carrying pollen?

fuzzy bodies, hairs, sticky pouches

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

What is it called when an egg cell connects with a sperm cell

fertilization, sexual reproduction

300

the job of this part is to hold seeds and often turns into delicious fruit

plant ovary
400
The female part of the flower.
What is the pistil.
400
This type of pollination produces stronger plants.
What is cross-pollination?
400

what happens when an animal visits a flower to drink nectar?

They rub against the stamens and get pollen all over themselves.

400
Name a food that results from animal pollination

apple , cranberry

400

Why is the plant stigma sticky?

to trap pollen

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

what is the function of sepals?

to protect the unopened flower bud.