Welcome to your Practice Questions 1.2 – Pollination, fruits and seeds

1. 

There are two main ways that pollen is moved: by insects or by .

2. 
What is pollination?

3. 

Butterflies like to visit flowers that are big and have lots of , a sweet liquid.

4. 
Flowers pollinated by insects usually have brightly coloured petals, a scent, and produce nectar.

5. 
Flowers pollinated by wind have small, brightly coloured petals with a strong scent.

6. 
Insects that carry pollen from flower to flower are called...

7. 

Flowers pollinated by insects often have on their petals to guide the insect to the nectar.

8. 
Where does fertilisation happen in a flower?

9. 

The pollen and eggs join to make seeds in a process called .

10. 

Flowers pollinated by wind make lots of smooth, light pollen grains that away easily.

11. 

Fertilisation only happens if the pollen and the eggs are from the kind of flower.

12. 

After fertilisation, the of the flower grows and becomes the fruit.

13. 
What is one function of the fruit?

14. 
After the egg is fertilised, the petals and stamens of the flower die.

15. 
Which plants are usually pollinated by wind?