Flowers and seeds

Worksheet: Flowers and seeds

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Answer the questions.

1. Which part of a flower is often brightly coloured to attract insects?
   a) Antherb) Petalc) Rootd) Stem
2. Which part of a flower makes pollen?
   a) Carpelb) Petalc) Sepald) Stamen
3. Which part of a flower contains the ovules?
   a) Antherb) Filamentc) Ovaryd) Petal
4. The stamen is the female part of a flower.
   a) Trueb) False
5. What are the two main parts of a stamen?
6. What is pollination?
   a) Growth of a rootb) Making food in leavesc) Release of seeds from a fruitd) Transfer of pollen to a stigma
7. Which feature is typical of a wind-pollinated flower?
   a) Large bright petalsb) Small dull petalsc) Strong scentd) Sweet nectar
8. Wind-pollinated flowers usually make a lot of pollen.
   a) Trueb) False
9. Why do insects visit flowers such as foxgloves?
   a) To drink nectarb) To drink water from rootsc) To eat the stemd) To lay seeds
10. In fertilisation, a male cell from pollen joins with which cell?
    a) Egg cellb) Leaf cellc) Petal celld) Root cell
11. After fertilisation, what does the ovule become?
12. Why do plants spread their seeds away from the parent plant?
    a) To keep the seeds warmb) To make the seeds heavierc) To reduce competition for light and waterd) To stop pollination
13. Sycamore seeds have wings. How are they dispersed?
    a) By animals eating themb) By explosionc) By waterd) By wind
14. Burdock seeds have tiny hooks. How are they dispersed?
    a) By bursting podsb) By floating on waterc) By wind glidingd) Stuck to animal fur
15. Coconuts can be dispersed by floating on water.
    a) Trueb) False
16. Name the seed dispersal method used when a pod dries and suddenly bursts open.