Science recap Year 3 plants

Germination means:

• When you plant a seed in the ground

• air, light, water, nutrients, room to grow

• When a seed starts to grow

• cotton wool

Which does NOT HAPPEN during germination:

• A seed breaks open

• A flower opens

• A shoot grows up to the light

• A root grows down

Complete the layers of the soil

Answer explanation

What am I describing?

I am small. I contain all of the food for a baby plant to start growing.

• root

• seed

What am I describing?

I need three things to grow: water, warmth and light

• root

• seed

What am I describing?

I anchor the plant in the ground so that it does not fall over or blow away.

• root

• seed

• stem

• flower

I need 5 things to grow:

water, ____, light, nutrients from soil and ____

• jelly and icecream

• air and food

• space to grow and warmth

• air and space to grow

What am I describing?

I absorb water and nutrients from the soil

• seed

• flower

• trunk

• root