CIRCUIT ACTIVITTIES
Activity 1: Insect pollinated flower structure
Flower part quiz
http://www.quia.com/quiz/622651.html?AP_rand=2109651240
https://www.purposegames.com/game/parts-of-a-flower-alternate-quiz
Activity 1: WIND POLLINATED FLOWER
1. LABEL: STAMEN, STIGMA, FILAMENT, OVARY, CARPEL, ANTHER, BRACT
A
B
2. Explain how you know that this flower uses wind for pollination. (3 marks)
3: Compare STIGMA, STAMEN, CARPEL and POLLEN of wind and insect pollinated flowers.
See the 2 types of pollen on the photographs bellow. Suggest which one is from insect and which one is from
wind pollinated flower. Explain.
Activity 2: Define and compare sexual and asexual reproduction of plants.
SEXUAL REPRODUCTION
ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION
How many parents
needed? Sex cells
needed?
Compare genetic
information of parent/s
and offspring
Advantage for
farming/survival
Disadvantage for
farming/survival
Activity 3: Asexual reproduction of plants: Match these out correctly. Research, if you can not
answer.
PLANT
Strawberry
PART USED FOR ASEXUAL
REPRODUCTION
Runner/stolon
Ginger, Grasses;
Rhizomes
Daffodil
Bulb
Crocus
CORM
POTATO
TUBER
DESCRIPTION OF THE PART USED FOR
ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION
Long stem/shoot with buds that can produce
leaves as well as roots
Underground horizontal stem. At notes there
are buds, which may develop to shoots
consist of layers of modified leaves and
contain a miniature flower or sprout in the
center. Lateral bud is used for vegetative
reproduction
Fleshy underground stem. There are no layers
of modified leaves inside.
Swollen underground stem with lateral buds
(eyes), which can produce the shoot.
Activity 4: Complete in your exercise book.
1. Draw and label a potato tuber. (3 marks)
2. Draw and label the onion diagram. Is onion a bulb or a corm? Why?