Germination is when a plant starts to grow from a seed.

A seed bank is a place where seeds are kept safely to conserve different species of plants for the future.

Conservation is the act of protecting Earth’s natural resources for current and future generations.

A crop is a plant that is grown to be sold, often as food.

Conservation of plants using seed banks (non-statutory)

Science

In this Reproduction and life cycles: plants unit, pupils learn to describe the life process of reproduction in some plants. In the Evolution and inheritance unit, they will build on this knowledge to learn that living things produce offspring of the same kind, but normally offspring vary and are not identical to their parents

In the What plants do and what they need unit, pupils learnt to explore the part that flowers play in the life cycle of flowering plants. In this Reproduction and life cycles: plants unit, pupils will build on this knowledge to describe the life processes of reproduction in some plants

Reproduction and life cycles: plants

Depiction or discussion of famine, disease, natural disasters.

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The act of protecting the natural world to keep it safe for present and future generations is called…

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farms where seeds are carefully harvested

What sort of conditions are seeds stored in to keep them safe and prevent them from germinating in seed banks?

it will be very hard for that species to reproduce

there are no individuals of that species alive. 

What does it mean when a species has become extinct?

grown in the wild without help from humans.

Plants have certain requirements to survive and grow. What are requirements?

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Depiction or discussion of violence or suffering

Adult supervision required

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