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