The Private Life Of Plants

Learning through book itself could be quite mundane. If your child is starting on Cycles: Reproduction of Flowering Plants, you may want to take the chance to watch the video and answer the questions at the same time as a form of revision. Answers are provided at the end. 

Structures of a flower and Pollination

Private Life of Plants - Flowering by Braggle

1. Which part of the flower produces pollen?
2. What is the stigma for?
3. How many pollen grain(s) does it take to fertilise an egg in the flower?
4. What is the purpose of the petals of a flower?
5. How does the germanium prevent self-fertilisation
6. What is the nectar of a flower for?
7. What colour is most bird-pollinated flowers and why?
8. What structures do plants, such as incan balsam, need to have bees as pollinators?
9. How does the Gentian plant ensures that only carpenter bees pollinate them?
10. How do the Australian fig tree and wasp benefit from each other?

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Seed Dispersal

The private life of plants-Travelling from Bronnen HWCollege on Vimeo.

1. In what form do most plants do most of the travelling?
2. Why do dandelion seeds get away from their parent plants?
3. What is the advantage that trees have about them dispersing their seeds?
4. What seeds are similar to helicopter in its method of dispersal
5. What is the largest seed of all? How are the seeds dispersed?
6. Name the seed that is shown in the video and it attaches to the dog. What characteristic of the seed that allow this to happen?
7. Why do most seeds need to get below the ground quickly to survive?
8. What colours do the seeds in Question 7 tend to be and why?
9. What is the name of the foul-smelling fruit and Borneo? How are its seeds dispersed?
10. How doe the agouti help to disperse Brazil nuts?
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