Flower Power

Would a scientist consider a tomato a fruit or a vegetable? Why or why not?

• Even though a tomato does not taste sweet, a scientist would consider a tomato a fruit because it has seeds.

• A scientist would consider it a fruit because it is red.

• A scientist would consider it a vegetable because it is by the other vegetables in the store.

How do bees help flowers? How do flowers help bees?

• Bees help flowers by keeping them safe. Flowers help bees by giving them a place to live.

• Bees help flowers because they move pollen from one flower to the other. But flowers help bees because they give the bees a drink of nectar.

• Bees help flowers because they help make the fruit. Flowers help bees by giving them nectar.

How are plant growers able to make new varieties of apples?

• They take a variety of seeds and plant them.

• They plant the seeds in different places, so each seed gets a different amount of sunlight.

• They use selection to select the certain traits that they want the new apples to have.

_________ is the powdery stuff that has to be moved from one flower to another in order for a plant’s seed pods to form. It is often yellow in color.

• Nectar

• Pollen

• Ovary

Babies ______ most of the traits of their parents

• inherit

• variety

• traits

The ________ is the sticky, center part of a flower where pollen must land, in order for a plant’s seed pod to develop.

• ovary

• pollen dusters

• stigma

At the base of any flower is a little container that holds a plant’s eggs. Scientists call this the

• nectar

• ovary

• stigma

When we use selection to change a wild plant, we call the new plant a

• trait

• selection

• variety

Any animal that helps pollen get from one flower to another, we call it a

• pollinator

• vegetable

• fruit

Color, size, shape, and taste are all examples of ________ we can select and change in a plant.

• pollen dusters

• traits

• selection