What is Pollen?
Pollen is a powdery substance found inside of flowers that is needed to make seeds.
What is a Pollinator?
An animal that moves pollen from one flower to another.
What are some examples of Pollinators?
Bees, butterflies and birds are examples of pollinators.
How to Animals help move seeds from one place to another?
Some animals carry seeds stuck to their fur. Other animals eat fruit which has seeds inside and then they poop out the seeds somewhere else.
How does Bee help move Pollen?
Pollen sticks to the bee while it drinks nectar and when the bee travels to another plant to drink more nectar, some of the pollen rubs off.
How does Animal fur help move the seed from one place to another?
Some seeds stick to the animal’s fur. When the animal moves to another area, the seeds could fall off when the animal scratches or rubs against something.
Besides Animals, what else helps move seeds from one place to another?
Both water and wind can move seeds. A coconut can float in the ocean and a dandelion uses wind to move seeds.
Give examples of plants with Wind Dispersion?
All kinds of grass, Maize(butta), Dandelion
Why do plants need to move their seeds from one place to another?
They need their seeds to grow in new places. It might be too shady right where a seed would fall from a plant. Plants can’t walk or move from place to place.
How does water help move the seeds?
Some seeds float on water and move from place to place. A coconut is a common example. Other kinds of seeds can float and move in a river or a lake.
How do some seeds like Velco move from one place to another?
They have structures that have hooks that stick to other materials, like a dog’s fur.
