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Final JeopardyFinal Jeopardy

1 - $1001 - $100 Is a cucumber a fruit or a vegetable?Is a cucumber a fruit or a vegetable?

Even though a cucumber does not taste Even though a cucumber does not taste sweet, a scientist would consider a sweet, a scientist would consider a cucumber a fruit because it has seeds.cucumber a fruit because it has seeds.

1 - $2001 - $200 Bees help flowers and flowers help bees. Bees help flowers and flowers help bees.

Explain!Explain!

Bees help flowers by moving pollen from one Bees help flowers by moving pollen from one flower to the next. This is how a flower’s flower to the next. This is how a flower’s seed pod forms. Flowers help bees by giving seed pod forms. Flowers help bees by giving them a drink of nectar in the base of the them a drink of nectar in the base of the flower. flower.

1 - $3001 - $300 If plants get most of their traits from their If plants get most of their traits from their

parents, then how are plant growers able parents, then how are plant growers able to make new varieties of plants?to make new varieties of plants?

Even though plants get most of their traits Even though plants get most of their traits from their parents, no two babies of a parent from their parents, no two babies of a parent are exactly alike. So plant growers can are exactly alike. So plant growers can selectselect those little differences and keep those little differences and keep selectingselecting those over time to make a new variety.those over time to make a new variety.

1 - $4001 - $400 Most clover plants have three leaves, but every once in

awhile, you can find a four-leafed clover. Do you think selection could be used to create a five-leafed clover? Why or why not?

I think selection could be used to create a five-leafed clover, because no two babies are exactly alike. A plant grower would have to select four-leaf clover plants as parents, and wait until they had a five-leafed clover baby.

1 - $5001 - $500 Label the following parts of this flower:Label the following parts of this flower: Stigma pollen dustersStigma pollen dusters ovary (place where the seed pod will form)ovary (place where the seed pod will form)

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________ is the powdery stuff that has to be moved from one flower to another in order for a plant’s seed pods to form. It is often yellow in color.

nectartraitsovaryvariety

vegetablepollen dustersstigmaselection

polleninheritfruitpollinator

Fill in each blank below by choosing the best word from the Vocabulary List:

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Pollen

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Babies __________ most of the traits of their parents.





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inherit

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The __________ is the sticky, center part of a flower where pollen must land, in order for a plant’s seed pod to develop.





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stigma

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At the base of any flower is a little container that holds a plant’s eggs. Scientists call this the ___________.





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ovary

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_____________ is the sugary liquid that a plant makes in order to attract animals (like bees) to land on its flowers.





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Nectar

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___________ is the process used by plant growers to make bigger, better varieties of plants for us to enjoy.





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Selection

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Any plant part we eat which does not contain seeds or does not taste sweet, we call a ______________.





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vegetable

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When we use selection to change a wild plant, we call the new plant a ______________.





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variety

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Color, size, shape, and taste are all examples of ___________ we can select and change in a plant.





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traits

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When a bee crawls into a flower, it brushes against the flower’s _____________.





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pollen dusters

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If a plant part we eat tastes sweet, or if it has seeds, then we call it a ___________.





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fruit

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Any animal that helps pollen get from one flower to another, we call it a _______________.





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pollinator

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Be sure to use your Mystery Assessment Be sure to use your Mystery Assessment quizzes to help you prepare for tomorrow’s quizzes to help you prepare for tomorrow’s test.test.

What is your personal learning goal for this first science assessment?

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This is a “Science Fruit”!This is a “Science Fruit”!

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A radish is a root vegetable!A radish is a root vegetable!

Final JeopardyFinal Jeopardy Is this a science “fruit” or a science Is this a science “fruit” or a science

“vegetable”?“vegetable”?

Science fruit because it has seeds inside, Science fruit because it has seeds inside, but it is not sweet!but it is not sweet!

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