lesson 5 fruits

Question 1

What is the main purpose of fruits?

Answer 1

To serve as a container that protects the seeds as they mature and to help disperse, or spread, the seeds.

Question 2

What is the difference between a fruit and a vegetable?

Answer 2

A fruit is anything on a plant that serves as a container for the seeds. A vegetable is any edible part of a plant that does not have seeds.

Question 3

Name a few different kinds of fruits about which you learned.

Answer 3

fleshy fruits, dry fruits

Question 4

Describe what seed dispersal means.

Answer 4

It means spreading and scattering, and is the process of getting the seeds from the parent plant to a new location.

Question 5

Explain the different methods of seed dispersal.

Answer 5

Human dispersal-when farmers plant seeds in the ground; Water dispersal-when water currents take seeds to new places;Animal dispersal-when animals get seeds on their fur or consume them to be carried and dropped in new locations. Wind dispersal-when breezes carry seeds to new places. Mechanical dispersal-when plants fling seeds out into the open to be taken away.