Science glossary · Ireland
Pollination
The moving of pollen from one part of a flower to another so that seeds can form.
Pollen is carried by insects, wind, birds or other animals. Pollination is needed before many plants can make fruit and seeds.
Example: A bee collects nectar and carries pollen from one flower to the next, pollinating them.
Lessons, worksheets, practice and tools on this: Living things and life cycles.
Related words
- Photosynthesis: How green plants make their own food using light.
- Habitat: The place where a plant or animal naturally lives and finds what it needs.
- Life cycle: The stages a living thing goes through from birth to having young of its own.
- Adaptation: A body part or behaviour that helps a living thing survive where it lives.
- Germination: When a seed begins to grow into a new plant.