Example:
The brown skin on a bean is its seed coat.
2. Water
Seed Coat
Parts of a Seed
This is the part of the seed that stores food for the baby plant.
It gives the seed energy to start growing before it can make its own food.
Eating seeds:
Animals eat fruits with seeds, like berries, and later the seeds come out in their droppings in a new place.
Stored food (Cotyledon)
How Seeds Move to Different Places
The seed coat is the outside layer of the seed.
It protects the seed, like a shield, from getting hurt or drying out.
4. Explosion
1. Wind
3. Animals
They can be sweet, like apples and mangoes, or not sweet, like tomatoes and cucumbers.
Carrying seeds:
Some seeds stick to animal fur or feathers, like little hitchhikers
Fruits and Seeds:
Embryo
are small parts inside fruits that can grow into new.......
PLANTS
Seeds
Seeds that grow near rivers, lakes, or oceans can float and travel with the water.
Some seeds are very light and have special shapes, like wings or fluff, that let them float in the air.
Some plants have seed pods that burst open and shoot seeds far away!
maple seeds
Seeds can’t walk or run, but they have cool ways to travel and find new places to grow!
Examples:
Dandelion seeds
Animals help move seeds in two ways:
Example
Burdock seeds
For example, an apple has seeds inside it that can grow into.....
apple trees.
The embryo is the baby plant inside the seed.
It will grow into the stem, leaves, and roots of a plant when the seed starts growing.
A seed has three main parts, like a tiny plant packed in a shell:
Fruits
Fruits are the part of a plant that holds seeds.
Fruits grow from the flowers of plants.
Examples:
Coconut seeds
Fruits
Example
Pea plants