Plant Reproduction

What are the two stages plants go through during their life cycle?

Choose the TWO that apply.

• sporophyte

• fertilization

• zygote

• gametophyte

What is the ripened ovary of an angiosperm called?

• fruit

• pollen

• sepal

• stamen

Brady took a cutting from a sweet potato vine in his family garden and

placed the vine in a small vase filled with water. After about a week, tiny

roots had begun to grow. What is this an example of?

• sexual reproduction

• asexual reproduction

• fertilization

• phototropism

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS3-2

What type of plant life cycle is illustrated in this image?

• gymnosperm life cycle

• angiosperm life cycle

• nonvascular plant life cycle

• ferm life cycle

Which of the following sentences describes the ways plants spread their

seeds? Choose the TWO that apply.

• Bees, attracted by brightly colored flowers, pick up and move seeds

  to new locations.

• Animals, attracted by scent, eat and then disperse seeds in new

  locations through their droppings.

• Seeds are carried away from the parent plant by wind or water.

• Flowers are picked and moved to new locations where their seeds

  can grow.

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Grafting is when part of a plant’s stem is cut and then attached to

another plant. Apple farmers often use grafting to ensure that new

plants will have the desired characteristics of the original apple tree.

What kind of reproduction is this?

• stem sprouting

• fertilization

• sexual

• asexual

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS3-2

A maple tree produces male and female flowers. Which term best describes the maple?

• gymnosperm

• angiosperm

• sporophyte

• non-vascular

The transfer of pollen from male reproductive structures to female reproductive structures in plants.

• pollination

• fertilization

• asexual reproduction

• gametophyte

The reproductive structures of many gymnosperms.

• cones

• fruit

• sporophyte

• pollen

A structure in seed plants that produces the female gametophyte; contains an egg cell.

• ovule

• stamen

• petals

• sepals