Science - Power of Flowers

In the first lesson the vanilla plants at first do not grow vanilla beans. Why not?

• There weren't enough plants.

• They didn't get enough sunlight.

• There weren't any pollinators in the greenhouse.

According to our lesson the seeds of a flowering plant are like the _________ of the plant.

• babies

• children

• teenagers

• adults

Bees and other pollinators spread pollen from the _________ of the flowers.

• pollen dusters

• roots

• leaves

In their search for nectar to drink, pollinators spread the pollen from one flower to another flower's _____________.

• fruit

• (sticky) stigma

• stem

Besides bees what else might pollinate flowers and blossoms? Only choose one answer...read carefully.

• bats

• hummingbirds

• butterflies

• all of the above answers

If the reason for flowers to be pollinated is to make seeds where are the seeds in fruit like apples and pears?

• in the stem

• at the bottom

• inside

What's the point of tasty fruit around the seeds?

• It protects the seeds.

• It feeds the seeds.

• It is one way that the seeds get moved away by animals.

According to science fruits have seeds inside. So according to scientists which of the following are fruit? Chose all that are fruit. Please choose more than one!

• tomato

• orange

• radish

• cucumber

The fruit grown from a seed will look exactly like the parent plant's fruit. True or False?

• True - They will look exactly the same.

• False - They will look similar, but there can be slight differences.

_________________ is used to develop plants that have the trait you want like size, flavor, color, shape, and so on.

• Selection

• Choosing

• Picking