wunder beta🌼 Pollination and Seed Dispersal
How flowers swap pollen to make seeds, and the clever ways seeds travel by wind, water, animals, and even tiny explosions.
What you’ll learn
- Pollen and PollinatorsUnderstand that pollination is the moving of pollen between flowers, and that animals called pollinators help.Flowers make a powder called pollen that must move from flower to flower — this is pollination. Pollinators such as bees, butterflies, hummingbirds, and bats carry the pollen while they sip nectar, helping flowers make seeds.
- From Flower to SeedExplain how a pollinated flower forms seeds and grows a fruit to protect them.When pollen reaches the centre of a flower it joins a tiny egg, and a seed begins to grow. The flower's petals fall and its base swells into a fruit that protects the seeds. Because crowded seedlings struggle, seeds need to travel away from the parent plant.
- Seeds on the MoveDescribe the four main ways seeds are dispersed: wind, water, animals, and explosion.Seeds spread in clever ways. Light seeds like dandelions blow in the wind, coconuts float on water, burrs hook onto animal fur and berries get eaten and dropped, and some pods explode to fling their seeds. Spreading out helps each seed find its own space to grow.
Questions this course answers
What is pollination?
Pollination is when pollen is carried from one flower to another so the flower can make seeds.
Which of these is a pollinator?
A bee is a pollinator — it carries pollen from flower to flower as it sips nectar.
After a flower is pollinated, what forms to hold the new seeds?
After pollination the flower's base swells into a fruit, which protects the seeds growing inside.
How does a dandelion seed usually travel?
A dandelion seed has a fluffy parachute, so the wind lifts it and carries it far away.
How do prickly burr seeds get carried to new places?
Burrs have tiny hooks that grab onto animal fur, so they get carried along until they fall off somewhere new.
Which seed travels by floating across water?
A coconut has a tough, airy shell that lets it float across the sea to a new beach.
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