Plants Life Cycle

Plants Life Cycle

Plant Life Cycle

• Different living things have different life cycles.

• Plants with flowers have life

  cycles that are alike.

• A flower, or blossom, makes fruit.

Pollen

• A seed is the first stage in the life cycle of most plants.

• Pollen helps make seeds.

• Pollen looks like a powder. It is found inside flowers.

• The pollen must move from one part of a flower to another.

• Wind can move pollen.

• So can insects and other animals. Then seeds can form.

Seedling

• When a seed is planted in soil, it starts to grow. Then it is called a seedling.

• The seedling grows into a young tree. The young tree is called a sapling.

Multiple Choice

The mature plants _____ flowers.

• produce

• give

• take

• need

Multiple Choice

A seed needs certain conditions to _______ (start growing)

• seedling

• germinate

• drop

• mature

Adult Tree

• The sapling grows into an adult tree.

• Then the adult tree makes seeds and the life cycle begins again.

• Most plants have life cycles that go on for many years.

• A plant's life cycle stops when the plant dies.

Non Flowering Plants

• Some plants do not have flowers.

• Some examples of non-flowering plants are pines, ferns and mosses.

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Ferns

Ferns generally reproduce by producing spores.

Mosses

Mosses are small flowerless plants. They produce spores.

Pines

Pine trees are conifers. A conifer is a plant that has cones . Conifers make seeds inside cones.

Spores

• Spores are in the black spots on the back of fern leaves.

• Ferns are reproduced from spores.

• The spores can be yellow, green, brown, or black.

Multiple Choice

Hibiscus and Jasmine are _____ plants.

• flowering

• non-flowering

• spores

• ferns

Multiple Select

_____, _______, and _____ are reproduced from spores.

• Hibiscus

• Ferns

• Mosses

• Orchids

• Pines

Multiple Select

Non-flowering plants with _____or _____ make new plants.

• pines

• cones

• ferns

• spores

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