DISPERSAL OF SEEDS

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

• By wind

• By water

• By animals

• By explosive mechanism

• By other plants

State a dispersal method for the fruit/seed below

• By animals

• By water

• By wind

• By explossive

What are the characteristics of fruits that are dispersed by animals?

• Have latex and juicy

• Edible and have hooks

• Light and have the atrractive colour

• Small and have the spiral shape

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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

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

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Which of the seeds below has the same dispersal method as the seed/fruit in this picture?

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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

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What is the effect of explosive mechanism to this plant?

• The seedlings will grow far from the okra plant

• Causes the seedlings become crowded

• Plants are not be able to mantain their species

• The seeds are not growing

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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