Pollination

Write down the word which means 'pollen lands on the stigma.'

Write down the where pollen is made in a flower.

Select the true sentence.

• Pollination can only happen between two different plants.

• Pollination can only happen between the male and female parts of the same plant.

• Pollination can happen in both of these ways.

• Pollination can not happen in either of these ways.

Select the true sentence.

• Only the wind transfers pollen to the stigma.

• Only insects transfer pollen to the stigma.

• Both insects and the wind transfer pollen to the stigma.

• Neither the wind or insects transfer pollen to the stigma.

Features of insect pollinated plant includes...

• a stigma hanging outside of the flower.

• very light pollen.

• small green or brown petals.

• brightly coloured and sweet smelling petals.

Select the best reason why insect pollinated plants often contain nectar.

• It keeps the insect stuck inside the flower.

• Bees use the substance to make honey.

• It makes the flower more expensive and valuable.

• It produces a smell which attracts insects.

Select the explanation for why insects pollinate plants.

• Pollen sticks to insects, pollen rubs onto the stigma when insects move over it.

• Pollen sticks to stigma, insects take it away when they move over it.

• Insects push pollen down into the ovule.

• Pollen in the wind sticks to an insect's body and gets scattered over stigma when insects fly.

Select the correct feature of a wind pollinated plant.

• Only small amounts of pollen produced.

• Lots of nectar.

• Anthers inside the flower for pollen to catch the wind.

• Anthers hanging out of the flower for pollen to catch the wind.

Select feature you would not find on wind pollinated plant.

• Stigma hanging outside the flower.

• Bright, large flowers

• Small, brown or green petals.

• No nectar

Select the best explanation of wind pollination.

• The pollen from one flower is blown by the wind and might land on the stigma of another.

• The stigma from one flower is blown by the wind and might land on the pollen of another.

• Both of these explanation are correct.

• Neither explanation is correct.