Power of Flowers - Mystery Science

In the first lesson the vanilla plants at first do not grow vanilla beans. Why not?

• There weren't enough plants.

• They didn't get enough sunlight.

• There weren't any pollinators in the greenhouse.

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According to our lesson the seeds of a flowering plant are like the _________ of the plant.

• babies

• children

• teenagers

• adults

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Bees and other pollinators spread pollen from the _________ of the flowers.

• pollen dusters

• roots

• leaves

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In their search for nectar to drink, pollinators spread the pollen from one flower to another flower's _____________.

• fruit

• (sticky) stigma

• stem

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Besides bees what else might pollinate flowers and blossoms? Only choose one answer...read carefully.

• bats

• hummingbirds

• butterflies

• all of the above answers

If the reason for flowers to be pollinated is to make seeds where are the seeds in fruit like apples and pears?

• in the stem

• at the bottom

• inside

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What's the point of tasty fruit around the seeds?

• It protects the seeds.

• It feeds the seeds.

• It is one way that the seeds get moved away by animals.

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According to science fruits have seeds inside. So according to scientists which of the following are fruit? Chose all that are fruit. Please choose more than one!

• tomato

• orange

• radish

• cucumber

The fruit grown from a seed will look exactly like the parent plant's fruit. True or False?

• True - They will look exactly the same.

• False - They will look similar, but there can be slight differences.

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_________________ is used to develop plants that have the trait you want like size, flavor, color, shape, and so on.

• Selection

• Choosing

• Picking

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