March 2023 - Level 2 - Mixed operations and Plants

What is the first stage of the plant life cycle?

• seedling

• seed

• adult plant

• germination

When the seed gets the proper amount of sunlight, air, and water the seed is going through _________________.

• pollen

• watering

• germination

• metamorphosis

Tags

CCSS.RI.1.3

CCSS.RI.2.3

CCSS.RI.2.5

CCSS.RI.3.3

CCSS.RI.3.5

Seeds can move from one place to another by

• wind

• water

• animals

• wind, water, and animals

What is it called when seeds move from one place to another?

• germination

• seed dispersal

• life cycle

• seedling

How do some plants survive in the winter?

• stored food
• they can't so they die
• animals take care of them
• they produce a coat

What is one specialized structure on a rose that helps it survive?

• thorns
• cones
• nothing

Which of these is an example of a plant adaptation.

• A plant needs sunlight to survive.

• Vines that can stick to walls and grow up trees or buildings to get their leaves closer to the sun.

• Roots soak up water and nutrients from the soil.

• People cut down trees to make lumber for houses.

A student made a list of structures that are helpful for plants living in the desert.

Many plants in the desert have -

• spines

• stems that can expand to hold water

What other structures should the students add to the list?

• tendrils and waxy skin

• shallow roots and leaves that drop in the fall

• bark and leaves that drop in the fall

• waxy skin and shallow roots

Click on all the ways a seed can be dispersed.

• Wind can blow a seed.

• Roots gathering seeds.

• Stems carrying seeds.

• Animals eating seeds and depositing them elsewhere

• Seeds floating on water.

If a blue flower was put in a room with no sunlight, and a red flower was put next to a window with sunlight, which flower would grow taller?

• blue flower
• red flower