Dispersal of Seeds

State a dispersal method for the fruit/seed below

• By animals

• By water

• By wind

• By explossive

My pod splits open and seeds are thrown far away from my mother plant. What is likely my dispersal method?

• By animal

• By explosive mechanism

• By water

• By wind

Why are dandelion seeds able to disperse by wind?

• Have small seeds and edible

• Have air spaces and dry

• Have hooks that attached with animals fur

• Light and have fine hairs

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How do the papaya seeds get spread by birds?

• Through their saliva

• Birds carry the seeds using their claws

• Through their dropping

• Birds carry the seeds in their mouth

The purpose of seed dispersal is that the seeds __________.

• germinate at the same time

• move to the same place and grow

• move further away from the parent plant

• compete with each other for minerals in the soil

Choose the ideal characteristics of seed which is disperses by wind

• Attractive colour, explode when dry

• Small, edible, waterproof

• Light, float on water, have air space

• Small, light, have wing-like structure

The purpose of seed dispersal is for the seeds to __________.

• germinate at the same time

• move to the same place and grow

• move further away from the parent plant

• compete with one another for minerals in the soil

Water can spread seeds by river and streams, or like a coconut floating across an ocean

• Anemochory

• Hydrochory

• Zoochory

How are dandelion seeds dispersed?

• by animals

• by explosion or bursting

• by wind

All the following are the plants dispersal method except.......

• By wind

• By water

• By animals

• By explosive mechanism

• By other plants