Plants

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Plants

• Chapter 1
• Fourth Grade

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Two Groups of Plants

• All Plants can be classified in two groups
• Seed plants and
• Nonseed plants

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Two Groups of Seed Plants

• Evergreens plants, conifers, make seeds.
• Flowering plants are the largest group of seed
  plants.
• Seeds help plants to reproduce or make new plants.

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Flowering Plants/Conifers
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Parts of a Flower

• Stamen is the part of a flower that makes pollen.
• Pistil is where the ovary and ovule is located.
• Sepal is green leaves that protect the petals.

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What Makes a Seed?

• Pollination is when the pollen moves to the
  ovary.
• Fertilization is when the sperm in pollen mixes
  with the egg in the ovary.

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Monocot and Dicot Seeds

• If a seed is hard and dry, it is dormant.
• When a seed sprouts, it germinates.
• Monocots have one seed leaf (leaves). Dicots
  have two.
• The 3 parts of a seed are seed coat, seed leaf,
  and embryo.