Inspire Science Plant Life Cycles

To make more of one's own kind.

• Pollination

• Reproduce

• Germinate

• Mendel

Pollen that travels to other flowers by birds, insects, other animals, or the wind.

• Anther

• Stigma

• Pollination

• Butterfly

A young plant with 2 leaves.

• Seed

• Seedling

• Flowering plant

• Fruit bearing plant

When a seed starts to grow into a plant.

• Germinate

• Seed

• Fruit

• Flower

This type of plant reproduces using cones.

• Banana tree

• Ferns

• Conifers

• Orchid

This plant trait varies in flowers like tulips.

• Petal Color

• Shape of flower

• Shape of leaves

• Color of stem

Traits the come from parents

• Inherited

• Gregor Mendel

• Life Cycle

• Pollination

When offspring look different it's because they have ________ in traits

• Germinate

• Variation

• Pollination

• Entomologist

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.2

CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.2

What does an entomologist do?

• Study genes

• Study pea plants

• Study insects

• Eat insects