1. Bell Ringer Questions: (use your notes from last week to help you answer) 1)Why is sexual reproduction of plants important? 2) What is the definition of GERMINATION? 3) What conditions must be met for germination to occur?

2. Planting Seeds Outdoors & Planting Seeds for Transplanting Additional Germination Processes Read and write Cornell notes for textbook pages: 96-101

3. Planting Seeds Outdoors pp.96-97 Vocabulary: direct seeding - Direct seeding factors: Site selection - Seedbed preparation - Planting date - Planting depth and spacing - Moisture -

4. Planting Seeds for Translanting pp.98-101 Vocabulary: Indirect seeding - Scarification - Stratification - Damping off - Harden off - Subsections: Overcoming Seed Dormancy - * Seed coat dormancy * Embryo dormancy Germination Media - Planting in Rows or Broadcasting - Moisture, Temperature, and Light- Damping Off - Transplanting -

5. Two additional mechanisms affect germination in certain plant seeds: * Stratification - a required period of cold temperature * Scarification - a mechanism that breaks down the seed coat - examples from Nature and Humans: