Welcome to your B5 Practice Questions 1.4 – Seed germination

1. 
What is inside a seed?

2. 

When a seed starts to grow, we say it .

3. 
True or false? Seeds are dead.

4. 

The process of a seed starting to grow is called .

5. 
What does a seed need before it can start to grow?

6. 

The seed uses its food store to give it the to grow.

7. 
True or false? The seed shrivels and becomes small after germination.

8. 

Things that affect how something happens are called .

9. 
What happens first when a bean seed germinates?

10. 

After the seed swells, the seed splits.

11. 
Which part grows first: the root or the shoot?

12. 

The root grows down into the .

13. 
True or false? Seeds can live for years without germinating until the conditions are suitable.

14. 

The oldest seed known to germinate was a 1300-year-old seed from a flower.