Inflorescences and fruits
Answers are for parents and teachers.
1
Sort 6 fruits at home (fleshy/dry, type) and put them in a table.
E.g. peach β drupe; tomato β berry; apple β pome; melon β gourd fruit; pea β legume; wheat β grain.
2
Cut an apple or tomato with an adult and draw its internal structure.
Apple: seed chambers; tomato: many seeds inside jelly-like pulp.
3
In 3 sentences link flower and fruit: why does the ovary become a fruit?
After fertilization ovules become seeds and the ovary wall becomes the fruit.
4
Name the inflorescence of 8 plants (at least 5 different types).
Cabbage β raceme; onion β umbel; sunflower β capitulum; wheat β compound spike; carrot β compound umbel; walnut β catkin; clover β head; maize β spadix.
5
If one cotton boll holds 30 seeds, how many seeds are in 12 bolls?
360