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 do 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 leave the seeds somewhere else in their toilet.
How do bees 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 a seed from one place to another?
Some seeds stick to the animal’s fur. When the animal moves to another area, the seeds may fall off.
Besides animals, what else helps move seeds from one place to another?
water, wind
Give examples of seeds dispersed by wind.
Grasses, Maize, 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.
How do seeds with hooks move from one place to another?
The hooks stick to other materials, like a dog’s fur.
