POLLINATION POWER
Plant Life Cycle
Seed Travelers
Metamorphosis Mania
Life Cycle Showdown
100

This process happens when pollen moves from the stamen to the pistil.

What is pollination?

100

This is the first stage of a plant's life cycle.

What is a seed?

100

This process happens when seeds move away from the parent plant.

What is seed dispersal?

100

A butterfly begins life as this stage.

What is an egg?

100

Both plants and frogs begin life in this type of early stage.

What is a beginning life stage (seed or egg)?

200

This insect often helps carry pollen from one flower to another.

What is a bee?

200

This process begins when a seed absorbs water and starts to sprout.

What is germination?

200

Birds eating fruit and dropping seeds somewhere else is an example of this process.

What is seed dispersal?

200

A caterpillar is in this stage of complete metamorphosis.

What is the larva stage?

200

Which frog stage is most similar to a plant seed?

What is an egg?

300

True or False: Pollination happens after fertilization.

False

300

What is the first evidence that germination has occurred?

A shoot or stem begins to emerge from the seed.

300

Name one way seeds can travel besides animals.

Wind or water.

300

This stage comes after the larva stage in complete metamorphosis.

What is the pupa stage?

300

True or False: A frog goes through pollination before becoming an adult.

False

400

A butterfly carries pollen from one flower to another. What process is it helping with?

What is pollination?

400

What stage comes directly after germination?

What is the seedling stage?

400

Why is seed dispersal important?

It helps plants grow in new locations.

400

A young praying mantis that looks like a small adult is called this.

What is a nymph?

400

How are the life cycles of two different plants similar?

They both begin as seeds and grow larger.

500

Name the two flower parts involved in pollination.

What are the stamen and pistil?

500

Put these in order: Seed Formation, Pollination, Fertilization, Seed Dispersal.

  • Pollination
  • Fertilization
  • Seed Formation
  • Seed Dispersal
500

A squirrel buries an acorn far from the tree it came from. How is the squirrel helping the plant reproduce?

By dispersing the seed.

500

Complete metamorphosis has how many stages? Name them.

4 stages Egg → Larva → Pupa → Adult

500

Compare complete and incomplete metamorphosis. Give one difference.

Complete metamorphosis has a larva and pupa stage. Incomplete metamorphosis has a nymph stage and no pupa stage.