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Plant Life Cycles
At a music festival in Aotearoa New Zealand, Ruben, Aisha and Rawiri are helping a native-plant team. Read the clues, follow each plant through its life cycle, and solve the challenges. Plants do not all grow at the same speed or in exactly the same way.
Follow the cycle
Use the stages and clues in Questions 1–3 to follow the plant's life cycle.
1.Put these stages in order, starting with a seed: mature flowering plant; seedling; germinating seed; seeds carried away from the plant. Write the stages in the correct order.
2.A seed begins to sprout. What is this stage called?
- Pollination
- Germination
- Seed dispersal
- Flowering
3.After a seed sprouts, it grows into a young plant. What is this young plant called?
Festival plant clues
The team notices a few different things happening to plants near the festival site.
4.A bee visits a flower, then flies to another flower of the same kind. Pollen is moved between the flowers. What is this process called?
5.Wind carries light seeds away from a plant. Explain one reason this can help the plant's offspring.
6.Which statement best describes what leaves do for most plants?
- They absorb water from the soil.
- They make food for the plant using light.
- They carry seeds through the air.
- They turn into roots.
7.A seed starts growing in a damp paper towel rather than soil. True or false: soil is always needed for a seed to begin germinating.
TrueFalse
8.Match each plant part to its main job: roots; leaves; flowers. Jobs: take in water and help anchor the plant; make food using light; help the plant make seeds.
- Roots
- Leaves
- Flowers
- Make food using light
- Take in water and help anchor the plant
- Help the plant make seeds
9.Ruben finds a seed pod that has opened and released seeds. Which life-cycle event has happened?
- Germination
- Seed dispersal
- Pollination
- The plant becoming a seedling
10.A plant grows, makes seeds, and some of those seeds grow into new plants. Why is this called a life cycle rather than a one-way journey?
11.Create a four-stage mini life cycle for a flowering plant. Draw the stages and add one short label to each.
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