B5 Practice Questions 1.3 – How seeds are spread – Biologie · Chemie · Medien

Welcome to your B5 Practice Questions 1.3 – How seeds are spread

1.

What is a fruit?

The part of a flowering plant that contains the seeds

The part of a flower that makes pollen

The green leaf of a plant

2.

Fruits usually have a skin on the outside, seeds inside and around the seeds.

3.

What are the two jobs of a fruit?

To protect the seeds and to help spread them

To make pollen and to attract insects

To make food and to store water

4.

When plants spread their seeds away from themselves, we call this seed .

5.

Seed dispersal happens when a fruit is ripe.

True

False

6.

Seeds grow into young plants called .

7.

Why do plants need to spread their seeds away from themselves?

Seedlings need room to grow and need light and water.

Seeds cannot grow in soil.

Seedlings grow best very close together.

8.

Fruits that are spread by animals are often colourful, soft and .

9.

Seeds eaten by animals pass through the body of the animal and are dispersed in its droppings.

True

False

10.

Some fruits and seeds have spines and that stick onto the fur of animals.

11.

How are dandelion seeds adapted for wind dispersal?

They have a parachute of hairs.

They have a spongy covering.

They have spines and hooks.

12.

The poppy fruit forms a pepper with holes in it.

13.

The coconut is dispersed by wind.

True

False

14.

Fruits that are dispersed by water have a covering that helps them float.

15.

Bean pods dry out and explode in hot weather.

True

False

16.

Apples are heavy and round. When they are ripe, they drop from the tree and along the ground.