TCI Lesson 3: Plant Structures for Reproduction

True or False: When pollen from a cluster of male cones is released, the wind will transfer it to the female cone.

• True

• False

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True or False: A female cone has soft scales.

• True

• False

True or False: Many kinds of seeds have structures that help them move away from the parent plant.

• True

• False

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True or False: All seeds have tiny hooks that can grab onto animal fur or human clothing.

• True

• False

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NGSS.MS-LS1-4

True or False: Wind and water can carry pollen and seeds to new places.

• True

• False

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The process in which a male structure and a female structure come together and combine to make seeds.

• pistil

• photosynthesis

• fertilization

• pollen

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A plant reproductive structure that has scales, but no petals, stamens, pistils, or ovary.

• cone

• fertilization

• ovary

• pistil

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NGSS.MS-LS1-4

The female part of a flower which receives pollen.

• cone

• stamen

• ovary

• pistil

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NGSS.MS-LS1-4

The part of a pistil where a new plant (seeds) will develop.

• cone

• ovary

• pollen

• stamen

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NGSS.MS-LS1-4

A powdery material that contains tiny male structures and is made in the stamen.

• cone

• pollen

• pistil

• ovary

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