Name: ___________________________________________________ Period: _________________ Plant Reproduction Worksheet Holt Page 270 Flowers 1. Flowers are adaptations for _______________________________________________________________________ 2. (Read caption) The stamen produces the ______________ and the pistil produces the _________________ Holt Page 280-281 Reproduction of Flowering Plants 3. Circle any of the following statement that are NOT true. a) Fertilization takes place within the flower b) Flowers produce seeds. c) Flowers do not produce fruit. 4. Number the steps 1st, 2nd and 3rd. _________ Pollen lands on the stigma _________ A sperm cell fuses with an egg in the ovule. _________ A pollen tube grows down through the style to the ovary. 5. Mark as true or false. If false, correct the sentence. a) _________ Each ovule contains an egg. ___________________________________________________ b) _________ The pollen travels from anther to stigma. ________________________________________ c) _________ The ovule becomes the fruit. __________________________________________________ d) _________ The ovary becomes the seed. __________________________________________________ Holt Page 259 What’s So Great About Seeds? 6. What is the name of the form of an animal that is just starting to develop? (Hint: The animal versions all look similar due to common ancestry.) ________________________________________________________ 7. List the 3 parts of a seed: _________________________________________________________________ 8. What nourishes the young plant as it just begins to grow/germinate? ______________________________ 9. Read the “Environmental Science Connection” caption. Why do some seeds need to be eaten to grow? ______________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________ Holt Page 282 Seeds Become New Plants 10. The root of the word dormant means to sleep. Why is “dormant” used to describe seeds? ______________ ______________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________ 11. Circle any of the following that are requirements for seeds to sprout. a) Water b) Oxygen c) Sunlight d) Correct temperature Holt Page 262 What are Flowers and Fruit For? 12. Plants not using wind for pollination have flower petals to _______________________________________ 13. List some ways that fruits are used to get the seeds distributed/spread out. a) ___________________________________________________________________________________ b) ___________________________________________________________________________________ c) ___________________________________________________________________________________ Use all the reading to explain the relationship of the pairs of terms below. 14. Ovule and seed. ______________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________ 15. Embryo and seed ______________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________ 16. Fruit and seed. ______________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________ .