Flower Vocabulary
What is the sweet liquid that plants make to attract animals?
What is nectar?
What is the plant part called that we eat that has seeds?
What is fruit?
What is the process used by plant growers to make bigger, better varieties of plants?
What is selection?
How do bees help flowers?
Bees help flowers by putting pollen from another plant on the stigma of a new plant.
Science Fruit or Science Vegetable?
potato
science vegetable
Which part of the flower does a bee brush against while getting nectar?
What is pollen dusters?
What is the plant part we eat that does not contain seeds?
What is a vegetable?
What is it called when you receive traits from your parents?
What is inherit?
How do flowers help bees?
Science Fruit or Science Vegetable?
tomato
science fruit
Which part of the flower holds a plant’s eggs?
What is the ovary?
What is any animal that helps pollen get from one flower to another?
What is a pollinator?
True or False?
Plants can become pollinated by their own pollen.
False.
Would a scientist consider a cucumber to be a fruit or a vegetable? How do you know?
A cucumber is considered a science fruit because it has seeds.
Science Fruit or Science Vegetable?
bell pepper
science fruit
What is the powder from plants that has to be moved from one flower to another for a plant’s seed pods to grow?
What is pollen?
What are characteristics of plants like color, size, shape, and taste called?
What are traits?
If you could create a new peach, what trait would you select to change?
answers vary
If plants get most of their traits from their parents, how are plant growers able to make new varieties of plants? (HINT: use selection)
Plant growers make new varieties of plants by using selection. They select seeds from plants that have traits that they are looking for such a sweetness or size. They then plant the seeds. They keep selecting plants that have the traits that they are looking for.
Science Fruit or Science Vegetable?
carrot
science vegetable
What is the sticky, center part of a flower where pollen must land for a seed pod to grow?
What is a stigma?
What are new plants made by selection to change a plant called?
What are varieties?
In order for a plant to form seed pods, what has to happen?
The plant has to be pollinated by a pollinator.
Name two pollinators.
Pollinators include: bees, butterflies, monkeys, birds and bats.
Science Fruit or Science Vegetable?
celery
science vegetable