INSIDE A SEED
What is the job of the seed coat?
To protect the seed.
Name four ways that seeds travel/spread out.
Animals/humans/water/wind.
Name a type of seed that is not edible.
More than one answer.
What is the largest seed?
A coconut.
Seeds grow up to be what?
New plants.
What is an embryo?
The beginning of a new plant.
Give an example of how humans help seeds travel.
Planting them.
What is the part of a seed that grows into a plant?
The embryo.
Dandelion seeds are spread this way.
Wind.
What is different about different seeds?
Size/shape/texture/color.
The plant embryo can be found where?
Inside the seed.
Give an example of how wind helps seeds travel.
More than one answer.
What are the three parts of a seed?
The seed coat/the embryo and food storage.
Which season is when most seeds are carried away from the plant.
Fall
The shell that covers the seed is called . . .
The seed coat
Every seed has these three things.
Seed coat/embryo/stored food.
Give two examples of how animals help seeds travel.
Eating and pooping/seeds getting caught in their fur/dropping out of mouth when eating or flying.
What are four things that most plants and seeds need?
Sun/water/oxygen/warmth and space.
Name 3 conditions needed for germination.
Moisture/temperature/air.
The beginning of development of a seed after a period of dormancy or rest is called . . .
Germination
When the embryo is resting, it is in what stage?
Dormant
Why is it important that seeds travel?
To have more plants and for plant diversity.
Why does a seed need water to begin growing?
So that it can let the seedling split open.
Type of seed having one cotyledon is called a
Monocot
What is a cotyledon?
A part of the embryo within the seed of a plant that feeds the plant until it can grow true leaves and begin photosynthesis.