1. Answer in your books in full sentences
A __________ forms down the length of the style after pollination
Describe Fertilisation
After fertilisation, what becomes,
The fruit
The seed?

2. Answer in your books in full sentences
A __________ forms down the length of the style after pollination
Fertilisation is when the male and female gametes fuse
After fertilisation, what becomes,
The fruit
The seed?

3. Answer in your books in full sentences
What forms down the length of a style after pollination occurs?
Describe Fertilisation
After fertilisation, what becomes,
The fruit
The seed?

4. Answer in your books in full sentences
What forms down the length of a style after pollination occurs?
Describe Fertilisation
After fertilisation, what becomes,
The fruit
The seed?

5. Answer in your books in full sentences
What forms down the length of a style after pollination occurs?
Describe Fertilisation
After fertilisation, what becomes,
The fruit
The seed?

6. Seed dispersal
WALT – Explain How plants distribute seeds

7. There are four main ways in which seeds can be dispersed:
Animals
Wind
Water
Explosions

8. Animals Hawthorn Elderberry Blackberry Cherry
Plants use juicy fruits which are carried by birds and other animals.
Fruits are eaten, but only the juicy parts are digested.
The stones and pips leave the animal's body via the droppings which may be some distance away from the parent plant.
Hawthorn
Elderberry
Blackberry
Cherry

9. Animals Hawthorn Elderberry Blackberry Cherry
1) Why do you think the plant wants the seed to be sown far away from the parent plant?
Hawthorn
Elderberry
Blackberry
Cherry

10. Animals Hawthorn Cherry Elderberry Blackberry
Why do you think the plant wants the seed to be sown far away fro the parent plant?
To reduce competition for resources :
Water
Light
Space
Nutrients
Hawthorn
Cherry
Elderberry
Blackberry

11. Animals Hazelnuts Burdock Goose Grass Mistletoe
Fruits with hooks and barbs, e.g. the burdock fruit, are carried in the hair, fur and wool of animals.
Squirrels bury nuts, including acorns and hazelnuts, for food supplies over the winter, but sometimes leave some behind which may grow into new plants in the spring.
Burdock
Goose Grass
Mistletoe

12. Wind Foxglove Dandelion Sycamore Ash
Plants such as dandelions and foxgloves have fruits with parachutes of hairs that catch the wind and are blown about.
Sycamore and ash fruits have wings which can be blown about and carried over distances.
Dandelion
Sycamore
Ash

13. Water Coconut Pond Iris Water Lily
Fruits which float, such as those of the water lily and pond iris are carried by water. Coconuts can also travel for thousands of kilometres across seas and oceans.
Pond Iris
Water Lily

14. Explosions Broom Laburnum Pea Gorse
Some plants disperse their own seeds.
The pods dry and split open suddenly with some considerable force which throws their seeds for some distance.
Laburnum
Pea
Gorse

15. Adaptations
For each of the methods, list the way in which the plant/ seed are adapted

16. Adaptations
An adaptation is a characteristic that allows a living thing to survive in a particular environment. For example, consider the different ways in which humans and fish breathe.
What adaptations can you see in the following plants that help the species to survive by dispersing seeds?

17. Blackberry

18. Blackberry
Blackberries are adapted to be dispersed by animals because they fruit is sweet and the seed is hard and cannot be digested

19. Burdock
Burdock seeds are adapted to be dispersed by animals because …

20. Burdock
Burdock seeds are adapted to be dispersed by animals because they get stuck to animal fur

21. Burdock

22. Dandelion

23. Dandelion
Dandelion seeds are adapted to be dispersed by wind because …

24. Dandelion
Dandelion seeds are adapted to be dispersed by wind because they are light and feathery

25. Coconut
Coconut seeds are adapted to be dispersed by water because …

26. Coconut
Coconut seeds are adapted to be dispersed by water because they float

27. Pea
Peas are adapted to be dispersed by explosion because …

28. Pea
Peas are adapted to be dispersed by explosion because their seed coat is springy

29. In your books, choose 2 fruits that we have covered and draw detailed diagrams
1 deispersed by wind
1 dispersed by animal
Calculate the magnificationof you drawing
Annotate each diagram to explain how the fruit is adapted for it’s type of dispersal