QUIZ 3: Science: Order & Design (Sections 2.1-2.2)

How could a plant spread its seeds?

• An animal could eat the fruit and spread the seeds
• Seeds could float away in the wind
• The seed could get stuck in an animals fur and be carried to a new place.
• All of the above

Zoe is curious about how fruits form in her garden. She wonders, from which part of a flower does a fruit develop?

• receptacle

• anther

• pistil

• ovary

Emma is studying how plants reproduce. She observes that once a pollen grain reaches the stigma, it produces a ________ through which the sperm cells will travel. What is the name of this structure?

• pollen tube

• filament

• anther

• ovule

Grace is planting seeds in her garden. She notices that some of the seeds have two cotyledons. These plants are ___.

• dicots

• monocots

• gymnosperms

• ferns

While helping in the garden, Emma notices some green, leaf-like structures covering a flower bud. She wonders what these structures are called, as they protect the bud until it opens as a fully formed flower. These structures are the _______.

• sepals

• petals

• stamens

• pistils

Charlotte is helping her grandmother in the garden and notices a yellow powder on some flowers. She wonders which part of the flower produces this pollen. What part of a flower produces pollen?

• ovule

• style

• sepal

• anther

Grace is helping her grandmother in the garden. She notices that some bees are moving yellow dust from one part of a flower to another part called the stigma. What is this process called?

• fertilization

• stigmatization

• pollination

• germination

While visiting a botanical garden, Mia noticed the variety of flowers and wondered about their purpose. Who recognized that flowers are organs intricately designed for plant reproduction?

• John Ray

• Christian Konrad Sprengel

• Sir Francis Bacon

• George Washington Carver

Nora is planting seeds in her garden and wonders what the tiny root inside each seed is called. What is the tiny root inside a seed?

• cotyledon

• plumule

• endosperm

• radicle

Why are shorea seeds able to be dispersed by the wind?

• It is light and has wing-like structure

• It has hooks to hook onto the fur of animals

• It has a fibrous husk that makes it float

• It has dry pods that split open