NATURE TRUE AND FALSEPLANT ANSWERSHOW DID YOU DO? CHECK THE ANSWERS TO THE NATURE TRUE AND FALSE PLANTS QUESTIONS. 1. FALSE Although flowers are beautiful, their real purpose is to develop seed. 2. TRUE Some plants need pollen from other plants of the same kind in order to produce seeds. This pollen is carried to the plants by the wind or by birds or insects. 3. FALSE Every part of a cattail, from the root to the cottony fluff, can be put to good use. Some parts are even edible and medicinal. 4. TRUE I find it amazing that such a useful plant is classed as a weed. Not only is the flower beautiful, every part of the dandelion, from the roots to the leaves to the flower, are edible and medicinal. 5. FALSE Many plants are very poisonous. Some poisonous plants look very, very much like some of the ones that are safe to eat. NEVER eat a plant unless you really know it well. 6. TRUE The juice from jewelweed when applied to your skin will prevent poison ivy rash. However, it must be applied BEFORE the rash develops. 7. TRUE Sedges have edges. Rushes are round. Grasses have joints all the way to the ground. 8. TRUE Milkweed is the only plant that the caterpillar of the monarch butterfly will eat. 9. TRUE Soy crayons are non toxic, bright in color, and less expensive than wax (petroleum based) crayons. 10. FALSE Bamboo is a grass with hollow, jointed, woody stems. 11. FALSE Another very important function of plant roots is to hold the plant in the ground. 12. TRUE Root hairs absorb water and pass it on the the main root, and then on to the plant. Root hairs are not like animal hairs, they are made up of a mass of microscopic cells. 13. TRUE Flower seeds will grow into a new plant the following year. 14. FALSE The four main parts to a flower are sepals, petals, carpels, and stamen. 15. TRUE Each type of flower, lily, rose, dandylion, etc. can be identified by noting the numbers and shapes of it's parts. 16. TRUE Green plants combine carbon dioxide and water to make oxygen and sugar. They give us and all other animals the oxygen. They turn the sugar into their own food.
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