Name ___________________________________________________________ Period ______
Plant Webquest
For a seed to grow into a healthy plant it needs plenty of water and light. Find out what happens if we
change the amounts of water and light we give to a seed.
Seed Growth
http://www2.bgfl.org/bgfl2/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks2/science/plants_pt2/whiteboard/light_water.htm
Plenty of Light and water
1. What grows from the seed first?
2. What happens to the seed coat?
3. What color are the leaves after they are exposed to light?
4. What gives the leaves the green color?
Light but not enough water
5. What grows from the seed first?
6. What happens to the seed coat?
7. What color are the leaves after they are exposed to light?
8. Why are the leaves not green?
Plenty of water but not enough light
9. What grows from the seed first?
10. What happens to the seed coat?
11. What color are the leaves?
12. Why are the leaves yellow?
Growing Plants
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/ages/5_6/growing_plants_fs.shtml
1. Water the plant to see if you can make it grow to full height. Did the plant grow to full height?
2. What happens if you don’t water the plant?
3. Pull the blind over the window so the plant does not receive light. How does this affect the
plant?
Life Cycles BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/ages/9_10/life_cycles.shtml
1. Why are the petals of flowers brightly colored?
2. What is the job of the sepals?
3. What is nectar?
4. What do bees do with nectar?
5. What is made in the carpel (pistil)?
6. Why is the stigma sticky?
7. What are the other two parts of the carpel (pistil)?
8. What is made by the stamens?
9. What is pollen?
10. What are the two parts of a stamen?
11. What is the receptacle?
McGraw Hill Pollination
http://activities.macmillanmh.com/science/ca/scienceinmotion/Common/SIM.html?Module=../Grade4/Chapter2-Pollination/
1. What is the male part of the flower called?
2. What part of the stamen contains pollen?
3. What is the female part of the flower called?
4. How can pollen move?
5. What does the hummingbird want from the flower?
6. What happens when the hummingbird touches the stamens?
7. What happens when the hummingbird feeds from another flower?
8. What occurs when the pollen sticks to the pistil?
Pick the Pollinator
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/nature/pollination-game.html
1. What is a pollinator?
2. What pollinates the following flowers? (Launch Interactive)
Hardy Fuchsia
Canada Goldenrod
Comet Orchid
Blue Violet
Wild Celery
Corpse Flower
African Baobab
Seed Dispersal
Plants need to disperse their seeds away from themselves to stop overcrowding and to create new
colonies. Nearly all seeds are produced within fruits. These fruits enable seeds to be dispersed in a
variety of ways.
http://www2.bgfl.org/bgfl2/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks2/science/plants_pt2/dispersal.htm
Method of Dispersal
Method
Plant Name
Wind
Bursting
Shakers
Water
Catching a Lift
Animal Food
Drop & Roll
Vascular Plants
http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/vascular/vascular.html
1. How many networks of tubes are found in vascular plants?
2. What is carried by the tubes?
3. What do plants use water and food for?
4. What enters the plant through the roots?
5. Where do the water tubes in the roots carry the water?
6. Where do the water tubes in the stem carry the water?
7. When water evaporates into the air what is this called?
8. Where is food made in the plant?
9. Where do the food tubes carry the food made in the leaves?
Plant Cell
Try these websites.
http://resources.hwb.wales.gov.uk/VTC/20050208/Science/Keystage3/Lifeprocessesan/plantcell/introduct/main1.htm
http://resources.hwb.wales.gov.uk/VTC/20050208/Science/Keystage3/Lifeprocessesan/plantcell/introduct/plenary.htm
http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/science_up_close/311/deploy/interface.html
http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/science_up_close/109/deploy/interface.html