Questions: Flowers and Pollination

Question 1

Why do bees visit flowers?

• A. To sting the flowers
• B. To collect sweet nectar and spread pollen
• C. To sleep inside the petals
• D. To eat the leaves

Answer: (B)

Bees visit flowers to drink nectar, a sweet liquid the flower makes. While the bee is inside the flower, dusty pollen sticks to its body. When the bee flies to the next flower, some of that pollen rubs off, and that is pollination.

Question 2

Flowers are mainly for making a plant look pretty.

• T. True
• F. False

Answer: False

Flowers have an important job: they help the plant make seeds. The bright colors and sweet smells attract bees, butterflies, and other animals that carry pollen from one flower to another. Looking pretty is actually a survival strategy.

Question 3

What is pollination?

Model answer: Pollination is when pollen moves from one flower to another, usually carried by bees, butterflies, or wind, so the flower can make seeds.

Pollination is a key step in a plant's life. Without it, most flowers cannot make seeds, and without seeds, no new plants can grow. Pollinators like bees are essential helpers in this process.