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Name_____________________________________________Date____________Hour____Table____
Make a prediction about the answer to each question. Put a star next to the answer that you think is
correct for each question. Watch the video about gymnosperms. Record the answer for each question on
the line before the number as you watch the video.
Gymnosperms
______1. What does the word gymnosperm
mean?
A.
B.
C.
D.
active seed
naked seed
coney seed
Latin seed
______2. Which kind of plant has been around
the longest?
A.
B.
C.
D.
gymnosperm
angiosperm
female cone
pollinated cone
______5. How do the eggs from a female cone
and the pollen from a male cone come together?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Animals carry cones to one another.
Scientists move pollen in a lab.
Eggs blow from one cone to another.
Wind carries the pollen to another cone.
______6. What is fertilization?
A.
B.
C.
D.
pollen and an egg making a seed
cones falling out of tree branches
seeds growing into plants
evergreen trees growing flowers
______7. Where do gymnosperm seeds
______3. Which of these is a kind of
gymnosperm plant?
A.
B.
C.
D.
ginko
tulip
oak
lily
______4. Why are female cones sticky?
A.
B.
C.
D.
to hold the pollen
to attract insects
to hold the eggs
to stay on the tree branch
germinate?
A.
B.
C.
D.
on the wind
in cones
in flowers
in soil