Chapter 3 - Plants

What is the bee doing to the flower?

• Pollinating it.

• Eating its fruit.

• Germinating it.

• Scattering its seeds.

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After taking a walk through a field, Jan picked burs off her socks and dropped them. What did she so by dropping the burs?

• She pollinated the plant.

• She did nothing important.

• She left food for animals that live in the field.

• She helped scatter a plant's seeds.

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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

How do leaves help plants?

• They hold the plant up.

• They take in water from the soil.

• The help make food through photosynthesis.

• They help make seeds.

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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

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

• bark

• stem

• seed

• flower

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The picture shows a young plant that begins to grow after a seed germinates. What is the young plant called?

• conifer

• fruit

• pollen

• seedling

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How are flowering and coniferous plants alike?

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

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

• They grow flowers.

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

When a plant ________, roots grow and a seedling begins to grow.

• reproduces

• scatters

• germinates

• blows

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When you plant a seed, in which direction will the roots grow?

• They will grow up toward the sun.

• They will always grow down into the soil.

• It all depends on which direction the seed is facing.

• They will not grow until the plant has leaves.

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