🌱 Inside every seed there is a tiny baby plant called an embryo! The seed also has a tough outer coat to protect it and a food supply to feed the baby plant when it starts to grow. It's like a sleeping plant waiting to wake up!
💧2What do seeds need to start growing? (pick the BEST answer)
💧 Seeds need water, warmth, and soil to start growing! When a seed gets water and warmth, the baby plant inside wakes up and pushes out a root and a tiny shoot. This is called germination. Once the plant has leaves, it also needs sunlight!
🌿3What part of the plant soaks up water from the soil?
🌱 The roots soak up water from the soil! Roots grow down into the ground and drink up water and nutrients. The stem then carries that water up to the rest of the plant — like a straw reaching up from underground.
🍃4What do the LEAVES of a plant do?
☀️ Leaves catch sunlight and use it to make food for the plant! This is called photosynthesis. Leaves are like little solar panels — they soak up energy from the sun and turn water and air into food. That's how plants feed themselves!
☀️5In our sunlight experiment, the plant in the DARK closet looked different. What happened to it?
🌑 The plant without sunlight grew pale and weak! Without sunlight, a plant can't make food for itself. Its leaves turn yellow and it gets droopy and thin. Plants really need sunlight to be strong and healthy!
🌸6What is the job of a flower on a plant?
🌸 Flowers make seeds! Flowers attract bees and other pollinators, and after pollination, they make seeds inside fruit. Those seeds can then travel away and grow into new plants. Flowers are the plant's way of making babies!
🌬️7Some seeds have fluffy parts that let them fly in the wind. This is called seed what?
🌬️ This is called seed dispersal — seeds traveling away from their parent plant! Seeds travel by wind (fluffy dandelion seeds!), water, animals eating fruit, and even by popping and exploding! Spreading out helps new plants find their own space to grow.
🐦8A bird eats a berry and flies far away. Later it drops the seeds. How did the seeds travel?
🐦 The seeds traveled by an animal! Birds, squirrels, and other animals eat fruit and carry seeds inside them — or stuck to their fur — and drop them somewhere new. Some seeds even have hooks that stick to animal fur like tiny velcro!
🔄9What is the FIRST step in a plant's life cycle?
🌱 The life cycle starts with a seed! The seed germinates (sprouts) into a seedling, the seedling grows into a young plant, then a full adult plant, and finally flowers bloom and make new seeds. Then the whole cycle starts again!
🌻10The tough outer covering that protects the baby plant inside a seed is called the seed…
🫘 The tough outer covering is called the seed coat! It's like a little sleeping bag or armour that protects the baby plant inside the seed. The seed coat keeps out water at the wrong time and protects the embryo until conditions are just right to grow!
