Chapter 3 - Plants

What do bees, butterflies, and bats do for flowers?

• They pollinate them.

• The eat them.

• They germinate them.

• They scatter their seeds.

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After taking a walk, Sam picked burs off her clothes and dropped them. What did she do by dropping the burs?

• She pollinated them.

• She did nothing important.

• She left them as food for the animals.

• She helped to scatter the seeds.

How can you classify a rosebush?

• as a plant that makes spores

• as a plant that has a prickly stem

• as a plant that has needles

• as a plant that makes cones

What structures help keep a cactus from losing too much water.

• thick, waxy stems

• deep tap roots

• seeds made in cones

• leaves with stinging hairs

How do leaves help plants?

• They hold the plant up.

• They take in water from the soil.

• They make food through photosynthesis.

• They make seeds.

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Where in a plant can you find tubes that move nutrients from the roots to the leaves?

• bark

• stem

• leaf

• flower

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What is a baby plant called?

• conifer

• fruit

• pollen

• seedling

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How are flowering and coniferous plants alike?

• They being a life cycle with a seed that germinates.

• They have roots that grow up and a stem that grows down.

• They grow flowers.

• Their seeds fall from cones.

Which direction do roots grow?

• up

• right

• down

• left

What causes root to grow in the same direction?

• gravity

• water

• sunlight

• dirt