Germination

Roots grow downward to anchor the seed.

• True

• False

Besides the plant embryo, what else is inside the seed?

• Food, which it uses until it can make its own food.

• grass

• source of light

What is Germination?

• the growth of roots of a young plant.

• the growth of new leaves of a young plant

• the overall growth of a seed into a young plant.

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What are the conditions that plants need to germinate?

• water, warmth, air

• water, sunlight, air

• water, sunlight, carbon dioxide

The life of a plant starts from a.......

• flower

• root

• seed

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2. A seed has three major parts.......

• A) root, stem and leaves

• B) seed coat, embryo and cotyledon

• C) petal, sepal and stamen

It is the baby plant.

• seed coat

• cotyledon

• embryo

5. It contains food for baby plants.

• A) seed coat

• B) embryo

• C) cotyledon

Germination means . . . . . .

• seeds growing into flowers

• why seeds move from place to place

• how seeds stick in the ground

• when a seed begins to grow

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Which of these stages happens AFTER a seed is planted and BEFORE it grows into a seedling?

• adult stage

• seedling stage

• germination stage

• seed stage

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