Science 7-2 Plants for Food and Fibre Assignment #2
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What is a pollinator? What attracts pollinators to flowers?
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Describe two ways that a seed plant can reprodcue without using seeds.
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Draw a diagram of the life cycle of seed plants. Label each stage. Be sure to label all parts of your diagram. (this is not an art project so do your best 😄 😄 )
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Describe two variations or differences in leaves that make a plant better suited to a specific environment.
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Why do cacti have thick stems.
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Sketch a plant with fibrous roots and a plant with a taproot. Be sure and to label your diagram.
The stages that a living thing goes through from one generation to the next is called ...
A. diversity
B. genetics
C. life cycle
D. reproduction
The beginning and end of a seed plant are selected actions that take place. The beginning of a seed
plant is when a seed begins to grow into a plant. The end of the process is when a seed plant ...
A. wilts and dies
B. grows reproductive organs
C. produces seeds of its own
D.gets harvested and sold
There are different stages in the life of a seed plant the development of reproductive structure takes place
between the following two stages …
A. seed to adult
B. seedling to adult
C. seed to seedling
D. adult to seed
It is during this stage that the seed plant has flowers
A. seed
B. seedling
C. adult
D. germination
In order for plants to make seeds they produce ...
A. carbon dioxide and water
B. oxygen and water
C. pollen and cones
D. flowers and cones
Usually found in the very center of the flower, the female part of the flower is called the ...
A. ovary
B. stoma
C. pollen
D. stigma
Insects are attracted to flowers so that the flower can be pollinated. The sugary liquid, produced by the flower, that the insects eat is called …
A. nockar
B. nicotine
C. nectar
D. vector
Plants can also reproduce without seeds. Stems can reproduce new plants. Stems that grow underground and reproduce without seeds are called ...
A. runners
B. rhizomes
C. suckers
D. bulbs
Some growers attach a part of one plant to another, and the two plants grow together. This reproductive technique is called …
A. sorting
B. grading
C. cutting
D. grafting
Plants are adapted to their surroundings. The adaptation that enables cactus to protect the water they store in their stem tissue is their ...
A. green color
B. flat stem
C. prickly spines
D. unusual shape
The adaptation that enables grasses to be pollinated by the wind more easily is their ...
A. green color
B. thin leaves and number of grasses spread out over an area
C. prickly point
D. unusual shape
Grasses have very deep roots to collect water and other nutrients. This helps them to adapt when this occurs …
A. drought
B. flooding
C. predation
D. competition
To protect the thin needle-like leaves of white spruce trees from drying out, they are coated with a thick layer of …
A. wax
B. resin
C. rubber
D. pollen
Plants can have different root systems, depending on what their environment might provide. Cacti need lots of water very quickly, so their root system would likely be described as ...