Homework Help - Flowering Plants (Angiosperms), Plant Homework Help

Flowering plants are not only pretty to look at they affect our daily lives in ways you may not have thought of before. Practically all the food we consume comes from flowering plants - beans, nuts, fruits, vegetables, tea, chocolate, coffee and more. Many of the medicines we take also come from flowering plants. Plants use flowers to make seeds for reproduction; each seed has the information needed to make a new plant.

10 Most Amazing Natural Fireworks on Earth

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13 Exquisite Orchids

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2015 Is Year of the Sunflower: Photos

2015 Is Year of the Sunflower: Photos, Jan. 1, 2015, By Discovery News, Celebrate the Year of the Sunflower with beautiful images and fun facts about the yellow beauties.

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35. Perfect and Imperfect Flowers

35. Perfect and Imperfect Flowers Chestofbooks.com Visit the website for the brief explanation.

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5 Beautiful But Deadly Flowers

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5 Most Disgusting Flowers on Earth

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A Close-up View of an Icelandic Poppy

A Close-up View of an Icelandic Poppy by Brian Johnston Microscopy UK Great site and very interesting! Large photos, with descriptions, of the progression from buds to flowers in the arctic pop

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A Giant Flower's New Family

A Giant Flower's New Family, By E. Sohn, January 17, 2007, Science News for Kids, The world's largest known flower may be a relative of the poinsettia plant. Please visit the web site for the

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About Photoperiodism in Flowering

About Photoperiodism in Flowering By Michael Logan GardenGuides.com Overview Many living organisms rely on the amount of sunlight or darkness they receive to detect seasonal changes. Photoperi

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Angiosperms

Angiosperms Image Credits: Clipart.com NatureWorks New Hampshire Public Television There are over 250,000 species of angiosperms. Angiosperms are flowering plants. They make up around 80 perce

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Angiosperms

Angiosperms biology-questions-and-answers.com Flowering Plants Review 1. What are angiosperms, the flowering plants? What is the main feature that distinguishes them from the gymnosperms? Fl

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Angiosperms

Angiosperms Monroe County Women's Disability Network Visit the web site for the brief article and interactive quiz.

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Angiosperms

Angiosperms Tree of Life Web Project Wonderful photographs of flowers; parts of text are advanced reading.

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Angiosperms

Angiosperms Biology Encyclopedia The angiosperms, or flowering plants, are the largest and most species-rich phylum of plants, with more than 250,000 species estimated. Read more: Angiosperms

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Angiosperms Review

Angiosperms Review Biology Questions and Answers Flowers become fruits with seeds inside. That's angiosperms. This review explains them all.

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Arnica: The Medicinal Flower Mired in Controversy

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BBC - Gardening with children - Flowers

BBC - Gardening with children - Flowers British Broadcasting Company Did you know? Flowers Without flowers, many plants would not be able to reproduce, and many insects would not be able to get

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Bushmans Friend: New Zealand Native Plants & Nature Walks

Bushmans Friend: New Zealand Native Plants & Nature Walks BushmansFriend.com Use this guide and the photos and images to help identify common New Zealand flowering native trees and shrubs. New

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Corpse Flower Blooms at Denver Botanic Gardens

Corpse Flower Blooms at Denver Botanic Gardens, August 19, 2015, By Danny Clemens, Discovery News, View a photo and brief article.

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Corpse Flower: Facts About the Smelly Plant

Corpse Flower: Facts About the Smelly Plant, August, 21, 2015, By Alina Bradford, Live Science Contributor, Find out why the corpse flower puts out such a strong odor.

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Cracking Nature's Color-Code for Flowers

Cracking Nature's Color-Code for Flowers, By Jan Suszkiw, Agricultural Research Service, Information Staff, Remember the rhyme that begins "Roses are red, violets are blue..."? Turns out, that

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Daylily flower - It's a short life

Daylily flower - It's a short life by Roger P. Hangarter Indiana University, Department of Biology Please visit the web site for the movie.

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Diversity of Flowering Plants

Diversity of Flowering Plants By W.P. Armstrong Wayne's World, Palomar College Flowering Plants Have Literally Colonized The Continents And Islands Of The Earth Flowering plants (angiosperms

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Dottie's Garden: PrimaryGames.com

Dottie's Garden: PrimaryGames.com A story about Dottie's garden.

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Eden (A Short Film About Flowering Plants)

Eden (A Short Film About Flowering Plants) The-School.org A short film about Flowering Plants in the form of a Haiku. For the classroom or for the home.

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Exploratorium Science of Gardening: The Secret Lives of Flowers

Exploratorium Science of Gardening: The Secret Lives of Flowers A fascinating site! Click a flower to see closeups of different flower parts or the menu at the bottom to learn about the male and

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First Flower Grown in Space (Or Not): Zinnia Blooms on Space Station

First Flower Grown in Space (Or Not): Zinnia Blooms on Space Station, January 21, 2016, by Robert Z. Pearlman, Space.com, Apparently the zinnias that has bloomed on the International Space Sta

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Flora of Australia Online

Flora of Australia Online About The information in the Flora of Australia Online website was first published in the Flora of Australia series, produced by the Australian Biological Resources Stu

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Flowering plant

Flowering plant Wikipedia.org Extensive article with illustrations and photographs.

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Flowering Plants, Shrubs and Trees

Flowering Plants, Shrubs and Trees, HowStuffWorks.com This all-text section on flowering plants discusses their uses, garden flowers, wildflowers, flowering shrubs, trees, grasses and sedges.

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Flowering Types Good to Know

Flowering Types Good to Know Jim Conrad, Naturalist Backyardnature.com Click on any flower name for photos and description.

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Flowers May Have Lived Existed With First Dinos

Flowers May Have Lived Existed With First Dinos, October 1, 2013, By Charles Choi, LiveScience, Discovery News Scientists unearth ancient pollen grains that suggest plants arrived 100 million ye

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Flowers Modern and Ancient

NOVA | First Flower | Flowers Modern and Ancient Grade Level: 3-5 PBS.org An amazing presentation on flowers that includes videos, photos and text. Please visit the web site to learn more. (cl

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Flowers | KInds of Flowers | Parts of the Flower

Flowers | KInds of Flowers | Parts of the Flower Flowers GS World of Flowers A flower is the part of a plant that forms pollen or seeds or both. Only seed-bearing plants have true flowers. Othe

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Flowers, Pollination & Ocean Dispersal In Coral Trees (Erythrina)

Flowers, Pollination & Ocean Dispersal In Coral Trees (Erythrina), By W.P. Armstrong, Wayne's World, Palomar College, Find out all about the coral trees of South Africa.

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Fruit: Triumps of the Angiosperms

Fruit: Triumps of the Angiosperms Author: Barbara Liang Wisc-Online Discover the importance of flowers in the formation of seeds and fruit.

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Fruits Flowers and Seeds

Fruits Flowers and Seeds Biology-online.org Part of a large tutorial on plant cells; covers the difference between monocot and dicot, flower structure, fruits, and seed dispersal.

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Growing Plants Science Clips

Growing Plants Science Clips 5-7 year olds British Broadcasting Corporation This BBC site examines how plants need water and light to grow and how seeds grow into flowering plants. There is a par

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Growth of a Flowering Plant

Growth of a Flowering Plant Gardenguides.com Overview Every spring, the process of flowering plant growth unfolds before your eyes. New shoots push free of seeds and the earth, sometimes growin

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Handyman Discovers Flower That Plants Its Own Seeds

Handyman Discovers Flower That Plants Its Own Seeds, September 16, 2011, By Remy Melina, LiveScience.com, A tiny plant that bows down to bury its seeds was recently discovered in rural northeast

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How blue flowers get their color

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How Cloning Vanilla Could Cut its Price

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Hummingbird tongues are way weirder than we thought

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Iris Flowers

Iris Flowers by Roger P. Hangarter Indiana University, Department of Biology Please visit the web site for the movie.

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Keukenhof: The Largest Flower Garden on Earth

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Learning Plant Families: Plant Family Web

Learning Plant Families: Plant Family Web University of Wisconsin Outreach The Wild Classroom Studying plants is all about looking for patterns. By using this site you'll be able to learn about

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Life cycles

Life cycles BBC KS2 Bitesize Learn about a flower's life cycle and each of its parts. You can also play an interactive activity or take a quiz.

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Missouri High School Student Discovers New Impatiens Species

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Missouri High School Student Discovers New Impatiens Species

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Morning Glory Flower

Morning Glory Flower by Roger P. Hangarter Indiana University, Department of Biology This morning glory flower was filmed over the course of one day starting around 5:00 AM until 7:30 PM. The m

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Mythical First Flower Found

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Orchids 101: The biology behind these elegant flowers

Orchids 101: The biology behind these elegant flowers, Mother Nature Network, Twelve close-up photos with brief descriptions.

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Parasitic Flowering Plants

Parasitic Flowering Plants, By W.P. Armstrong, Wayne's World, Palomar College, Large article and numerous photos on plants that live on other plants.

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Perry the Corpse Flower Full Bloom Cycle 2013

Perry the Corpse Flower Full Bloom Cycle 2013, Gustavus Adolphus College, YouTube.com, Video length: 06:42.

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Plant Taxonomy - Quiz

Plant Taxonomy By tigress Funtrivia.com This quiz focuses on plants.

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Plants in Motion

Plants in Motion by Roger P. Hangarter Indiana University, Department of Biology A series of time-lapse photography that lets you watch germination, general growth, flower development, and more.

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Research Pinpoints How Plants Know When To Flower

Research Pinpoints How Plants Know When To Flower Nay 28, 2012 RedOrbit.com Scientists believe they've pinpointed the last crucial piece of the 80-year-old puzzle of how plants "know" when to flo

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Scientists Discover 'Switch' in Plants to Create Flowers

Scientists Discover 'Switch' in Plants to Create Flowers April 17, 2012, ScienceDaily.com Flowering is the most crucial act that plants undergo, as the fruits of such labor include crops on whi

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Seedy Section of the Forest - Quiz

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The Bizarre Beauty of Mutant Flowers

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The Bizarrely Named Pigface Flower

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The Fibonacci Sequence As Seen in Flowers

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Titan Arum: The Largest Tropical Flower on Earth

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What are Angiosperms?

What are Angiosperms? Written by David White Wisegeek.com Plants are very dynamic things, despite their sedate reputation. They have exciting lives, they make their own food - at least some of

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What are Perfect Flowers?

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World's First Flowers May Have Bloomed Underwater

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Yareta: The 3,000-Year-Old Plant that Looks Like an Alien Life Form

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