Seed Packet Vocabulary Quiz

Annual Plants

• require two years to complete their life cycle

• complete their entire life cycle from seed to flower to seed within a single growing

  season.

• are plants that grow for many growing seasons.

Biennial Plants

• require two years to complete their life cycle.

• complete their entire life cycle from seed to flower to seed within a single growing

  season.

• are plants that grow for many growing seasons.

Perennial Plants

• complete their entire life cycle from seed to flower to seed within a single growing

  season.

• require two years to complete their life cycle.

• are plants that grow for many growing seasons.

Germination

• refers to the degree in which a seed is capable of germinating under suitable conditions.

  Seed viability is often expressed as a percentage. If you planted one hundred seeds at 75 sprouted and

  grew, your seed viability would be 75%. Seed viability decreases with time and poor storage conditions.

• means planting seeds in the garden, rather than buying small

  plants or starting seeds indoors earlier in the season and transplanting them outside.

• is the process by which an organism grows from a seed.

Seed Viability

• means planting seeds in the garden, rather than buying small

  plants or starting seeds indoors earlier in the season and transplanting them outside.

• refers to the degree in which a seed is capable of germinating under suitable conditions.

  Seed viability is often expressed as a percentage. If you planted one hundred seeds at 75 sprouted and

  grew, your seed viability would be 75%. Seed viability decreases with time and poor storage conditions

• is the process by which an organism grows from a seed.

Direct Seeding

• is the process by which an organism grows from a seed.

• refers to the degree in which a seed is capable of germinating under suitable conditions.

  Seed viability is often expressed as a percentage. If you planted one hundred seeds at 75 sprouted and

  grew, your seed viability would be 75%. Seed viability decreases with time and poor storage conditions.

• means planting seeds in the garden, rather than buying small

  plants or starting seeds indoors earlier in the season and transplanting them outside.

Heirloom seeds

• plants that pass on similar characteristics and traits from

  the parent plant to the child plant.

• comes from varieties that produce seed that can be harvested from the plant,

  saved, replanted, and the same variety will re-grow year after year

• is produced by cross pollinating two genetically different plants of the same species,

  such as two different tomatoes or two varieties of corn

A hybrid Seed

• is produced by cross pollinating two genetically different plants of the same species,

  such as two different tomatoes or two varieties of corn

• come from open-pollinated plants that pass on similar characteristics and traits from

  the parent plant to the child plant.

• comes from varieties that produce seed that can be harvested from the plant,

  saved, replanted, and the same variety will re-grow year after year.

Open Pollinated Seeds

• .will not

  reproduce the same variety the next year.

• two genetically different plants of the same species,

  such as two different tomatoes or two varieties of corn.

• comes from varieties that produce seed that can be harvested from the plant,

  saved, replanted, and the same variety will re-grow year after year.