Life cycles

Look at the illustration, what is the bee doing?

• Pollinating it

• Eating it’s fruit

• Germinating it

• Scattering it’s seeds

How can you classify a rose bush?

• As a plant that makes spore

• As a plant that has a prickly stem

• As a plant that has needles

• As a plant that makes cones

How are flowering and coniferous plants alike?

• They begin the life cycle with a seed that germinates.

• They have roots that grownup and a stem that grows down.

• They grow flowers.

• They end the life cycle when seeds fall from cones.

Some plants make cones. Other plants make flowers. What is the purpose of flowers and cones?

• They move water and food through a plant.

• They hold the plant in the soil so that it does not blow over in heavy winds.

• They make seeds so that the plant can reproduce.

• They take in water and nutrients from the soil.

A seed starts to grow into a new plant . What is this process called?

• Pollinating

• Forming fruit

• Making food

• Germinating

What kind of tree grows cones to make seeds?

• Flowering

• Deciduous

• Coniferous

• Fibrous

What do these two structures have in common?

• They are both found on plants that lose all of their leave in the fall.

• The both produce spores.

• They both grow seeds.

• They both grow only on plants that have woody stems.

Ferns and mosses are two plants that make....

• Seeds.

• Flowers.

• Spores.

• Cones.

Which stage comes second in the life of a butterfly?

• Adult

• Egg

• Pupa

• Larva

Rylee wants to observe a ladybug got through its life cycle, but she can’t find one. She decides to watch something that has a similar life cycle instead. Which should she study?

• Frog

• Mouse

• Butterfly

• Fish