flowering plant
Angiosperms produce flowers and fruits. This topic is part of Botany within Science & Nature. This page currently draws on 26 supporting questions, with answers and bonus facts available below.
flowering plant trivia questions
Flowering plants are also called what?
Answer: Angiosperms
Bonus fact: Angiosperms produce flowers and fruits.
What structure encloses the seeds of flowering plants?
Answer: Fruit
Bonus fact: Fruits develop from flower ovaries.
Which reproductive structure distinguishes angiosperms from gymnosperms?
Answer: Flowers
Bonus fact: Flowers house angiosperm reproductive organs.
What is the reproductive structure of a flowering plant called?
Answer: Flower
Bonus fact: Flowers contain structures involved in sexual reproduction in angiosperms.
Magnolias are considered evolutionarily ancient flowering plants and are often pollinated by what?
Answer: Beetles
Bonus fact: Magnolias evolved before bees became major pollinators.
In flowering plants, pollen is typically transferred to what structure?
Answer: Stigma
Bonus fact: The stigma is the receptive surface of the pistil.
In flowering plants, fruit usually develops from what flower part?
Answer: Ovary
Bonus fact: After fertilization, the ovary often matures into fruit.
In flowering plants, pollen grains contain which reproductive cells?
Answer: Male sex cells
Bonus fact: Pollination succeeds when pollen ultimately reaches an ovule of the same species.
What key feature distinguishes gymnosperms such as conifers from flowering plants?
Answer: They do not produce flowers or fruits
Bonus fact: Gymnosperm seeds are “naked” rather than enclosed inside a fruit.
About what fraction of the world’s flowering plants depend on animal pollinators to reproduce?
Answer: About three-fourths
Bonus fact: USDA also estimates that about 35 percent of world food crops depend on animal pollinators.
Orchids belong to which plant family?
Answer: Orchidaceae
Bonus fact: Orchidaceae is one of the largest flowering plant families.
Acacia is a type of what?
Answer: Plant
Bonus fact: Acacias are flowering plants, many of them shrubs or trees.