C3 Plants

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

• She pollinated a plant

• she did nothing important

• she left food for animals that live in the field

• she helped to scatter a plant's 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 plan that makes cones

How do leaves help plants?

• they hold the plant up

• the take in water from the soil

• the help make food through photosynthesis

• they help make seeds

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

A young plant begins to grow after a seed germinates. What is this young plant called?

• conifer

• fruit

• pollen

• seedling

How are flowing 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

• they end the life cycle when seeds fall from cones

No matter which direction a seed is planted, the roots will grow down toward Earth's center due to gravity.

• True

• False

Plants need water, air, food, and space to live and grow.

• True

• False

What a bee does to a flower?

• pollinates it

• eats its fruit

• germinates it

• scatters its seeds