2.12 C, Plants Depend on Animals, Wind, and Water

Which explanation demonstrates how plants depend on animals to make new plants?

• Animals help pollinate by bringing water to the plants.

• Animals help pollinate by using plants to build their homes.

• Animals help pollinate by carrying seeds on their fur to new places.

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Which explanation demonstrates how plants depend on wind for pollination?

• Wind gusts carry seeds to other places.

• Pollen is blown from one plant to another.

• Birds eat the seeds from a plant and fly away.

Which explanation demonstrates how a plant’s seeds or pollen can be spread to a new place? Choose TWO correct answers.

• a person smelling a rose

• a chipmunk burying acorns

• pollen floating on water to another place

Jaron wants to create a model of animals helping plants. He writes a list of ways animals help pollinate or help move seeds. Which actions help pollinate, and which help move seeds?

• help pollinate

• ladybug feeding on a flower

• help move seeds

• bee collecting pollen

• help pollinate

• bird dropping seeds

• help move seeds

• burr getting stuck in bear’s fur

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Andy makes a model of how a bee moves pollen. Which object should he use to demonstrate how pollen sticks to the bee’s body?

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Keenon walks along a pond and observes different plants. He draws three plants and records whether wind or water helps each plant move its seeds. Which demonstrates how each seed moves? Match ONE answer in each plant. Each answer may be used more than once.

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• water

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• water

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