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What is one reason that seeds need to move away from the parent plant in order grow?

to get sunlight, water, nutrients (food) from the soil, and space

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How does this plant disperse its seeds?

wind/air

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How does this plant disperse its seeds?

wind/air

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How does this plant disperse its seeds?

wind/air

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Name 2 ways that animals help disperse seeds.

burying seeds and forgetting about them, eating seeds in fruits and passing them through their droppings, getting seeds stuck in their coats

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What is the difference between a science fruit and a science vegetable?

a science fruit has seeds/a science vegetable does not

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Science Fruit or Science Vegetable?

fruit

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Science Fruit or Science Vegetable

Fruit

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Science Fruit or Science Vegetable

Vegetable

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Science Fruit or Science Vegetable

vegetable

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What is a hitchhiker seed?

seeds that stick to an animal's coat

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What type of dispersal occurs most in a crowded, dark rainforest -- wind, water, animal, or explosion?

animal

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A coconut is a very large seed. How does it travel away fro its parent plant?

water

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How does this plant disperse its seeds?

water

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What is one way that humans can disperse seeds? (No, not in their droppings!)

hitchhiking seeds get stuck to clothing, spit seeds, dig up seeds and plant somewhere else

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Why do some plants grow a brightly colored, tasty fruit around their seeds?

So that animals will want to eat them (and move their seeds)

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