Plant and Animal Life Cycles Seed Dispersal Correlation Fountas & Pinnell J DRA 18

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Elementary Science Program www.espsciencetime.orgwww espsciencetime or Needs of Plants Fruits are unique. Plants need light, water, and space There are many kinds of fruit. They to grow. move seeds from place to place in many ways. When you see a fruit of a plant, look at it closely. The properties of the fruit will give you some clues about how it disperses its seeds.

Plants can’t grow too close together. Overcrowding may cause the plants to die. They must send their seeds away.

2 15 Plants throw their seeds. Seeds move and travel. Some plants move their seeds with The part of the fl owering plant that force. The jewelweed plant has pods holds the seed is the plant’s fruit. with seeds. When the pod is moved, Fruits can help move the seeds. What it bursts open and throws the seeds. fruits do you see here? Now, the seeds are scattered away from the parent plant.

Jewelweed Plant

Look at the fruit of the maple tree. The wing portion around the seed is the fruit. 14 3 Plants spread or scatter their seeds Some animals eat fruits with seeds. in several ways. This is called seed The seed passes through the animal’s dispersal. body. The seed drops onto the ground in the animal’s waste. A plant may grow in this new place.

Birds eat cherries.

Bears eat raspberries. 4 13 Animals disperse seeds. Fruits may be dispersed by Animals help plants disperse their seeds. A fruit may have hooks, barbs, wind, or burrs. The fruit sticks to an animal. The fruit moves with the animal. It is then licked, shaken, or picked off. The fruit drops onto the soil. The seed inside the fruit may now grow into a water, new plant.

animals,

or force.

Burdock has a fruit with hooks.

12 5 The wind disperses seeds. Coconut trees are found on beaches near the ocean. The ocean carries the The wind can disperse some seeds fruit and its seed to new places. miles away. New plants that grow from these seeds will have more room to grow.

Coconut

Willow trees grow on riverbanks. Their fruits are carried by the river to new places.

Willow

6 11 Water disperses seeds. Some fruits have wings that allow them to glide and move through the Water helps some plants disperse air. their fruits. The fruits fl oat on the water. They are able to fl oat in the water because they are waterproof. The water moves the fruits to a new place.

The fruit of the elm tree helps disperse the seed.

10 7 Some fruits have parachutes that Other fruits have spinners that spin carry them far away in the wind. Have in the wind. They spin and stay in the you ever blown the parachutes off a air. The wind blows them far from the dandelion plant? parent plant.

Dandelion Ash

The fruits of a maple tree and an ash tree Milkweed have spinners.

Dandelion and milkweed fruits have parachutes. Maple

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