Quiz 3: Science: Order & Design (Sections 2.1-2.2)

Anika is curious about how fruits form in her garden. She wonders, from which part of a flower does a fruit develop?

• receptacle

• anther

• pistil

• ovary

Emma is studying plants in her garden and notices the unique structure of flowers. She wonders who first recognized that flowers are organs intricately designed for plant reproduction. Who was it?

• John Ray

• Christian Konrad Sprengel

• Sir Francis Bacon

• George Washington Carver

Grace is helping her teacher in the school garden and is curious about how flowers reproduce. She wants to know: what part of a flower produces pollen?

• ovule

• style

• sepal

• anther

Samuel is helping in a garden and notices that bees are moving pollen from the pollen-producing part of one flower to the stigma of another. What is this process called?

• fertilization

• stigmatization

• pollination

• germination

Anika is planting seeds in her garden and wonders what the tiny root inside each seed is called. What is the tiny root inside a seed?

• cotyledon

• plumule

• endosperm

• radicle

MODIFIED TRUE/FALSE: If the statement is true, write true in the blank. If it is false, replace the underlined word(s) with the word(s) that will make the statement true.

While helping Aria in her garden, you notice the leaf-like structures that protect a developing flower bud until it opens as a fully formed flower are the stamens.

• sepals

• petals

• true

• pistils

MODIFIED TRUE/FALSE: If the statement is true, write true in the blank. If it is false, replace the underlined word(s) with the word(s) that will make the statement true.

While helping Benjamin plant seeds in his garden, he learns that the tiny shoot of a seed that will become the plant's stem and leaves is the plumule.

• true

• radicle

• cotyledon

• endosperm

MODIFIED TRUE/FALSE: If the statement is true, write true in the blank. If it is false, replace the underlined word(s) with the word(s) that will make the statement true.

While helping Nora in her garden, you notice that once a pollen grain reaches the stigma of a flower, it produces a filament through which the sperm cells will travel.

• pollen tube

• anther

• ovule

• true

MODIFIED TRUE/FALSE: If the statement is true, write true in the blank. If it is false, replace the underlined word(s) with the word(s) that will make the statement true.

While walking in the park, Lily noticed that the wind aids in the mechanical dispersal of dandelion seeds.

• agent

• chemical

• biological

• true

MODIFIED TRUE/FALSE: If the statement is true, write true in the blank. If it is false, replace the underlined word(s) with the word(s) that will make the statement true.

While helping Ethan plant seeds in the garden, you notice that some plants have two cotyledons. Ethan says these plants are monocots.

• dicots

• monocots

• gymnosperms

• true