Plant Life Cycle
This is the first stage in a plant’s life cycle.
What is a seed?
This part of a plant takes water from the soil.
What are roots?
Plants need water and ___ to start growing.
What is warmth?
A trait passed down from the parent plant.
What is leaf color?
Pollination helps plants make these.
What are seeds?
This stage happens when a seed begins to grow.
What is germination?
This part of the plant holds it up and carries water.
What is the stem?
Name two things plants need to grow.
What are sunlight and water?
A plant trait that is not inherited but caused by the environment.
What is insect damage?
All plants grow at the same speed. True or False?
What is False?
After leaves grow, this stage begins.
What is flowering?
This part of the plant uses sunlight to make food.
What are leaves?
Without this, plants cannot make food.
What is sunlight?
Why do plants have different traits?
Because of inherited traits and environment.
Seeds can grow without sunlight. True or False?
What is False?
Put these in order: seed, germination, flowering, adult plant.
What is seed → germination → adult plant → flowering?
This part of the plant contains seeds.
What is the fruit?
Name one thing besides water plants need to grow. (Answers vary)
What is air or soil or sunlight?
Give one way plants of the same kind can be different.
Size, color, shape, etc.
Some traits are influenced by the environment. True or False?
What is True?
Draw and label the four main stages of the plant life cycle.
Seed, germination, growing plant, flowering plant.
This part of the plant attracts insects for pollination.
What is the flower?
Why is warmth important for seeds to grow?
It helps them germinate.
Explain the difference between inherited traits and traits caused by the environment.
Inherited come from parents; environmental from surroundings.
Name all four stages of the plant life cycle in order.
Seed, germination, adult plant, flowering.