Plant Life Cycle

Why do flowers grow fruit?

• To feed humans

• So that animals will eat the seeds and move them around.

• To look pretty

How do bees help flowers make seeds?

• A bee helps by taking pollen from one flower to another flower's sticky stigma.

• A bee helps flowers make seeds by drinking its nectar.

• A bee helps flowers by eating its petals.

What is an example of a "science fruit" that is called a vegetable in the grocery store?

• radish

• potato

• tomato

_________ is the powdery stuff that has to be moved from one flower to another in order for seeds to form. It is usually yellow.

• pollen

• nectar

• sticky stigma

What part of the apple reminds you that it was once a flower?

• At the stem you can see where the petals used to be.

• At the bottom of the apple you can see where the petals used to be.

• The fruit itself is always the same color as the flower.

How could you tell if something is a science fruit?

• If it's put into a salad.

• If it's sweet.

• If it has seeds.

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

• Pollen dusters

• Sticky stigma

• Pollinator

What is being formed in the plant's ovaries?

• Pollen

• Roots

• Seeds

Which of these help to pollinate flowers?

• squirrels

• butterflies

• bees

• foxes

• hummingbirds

______________ is the sugary liquid that a plant makes in order to attract animals to land on the flower.

• nectar

• sticky stigma

• fruit