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Free Year 3 Grouping Plants: Flowering and Non-Flowering Worksheet

Students learn how scientists group plants by their features — flowering plants that make seeds inside fruits, conifers that make seeds in cones, and ferns and mosses that grow from spores — then sort real examples and describe a plant they observe.

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Year
Year 3
Subject
Science
Topic
Living Things & Life Cycles
Difficulty
Level 2 · Standard
Estimated time
30 minutes
Curriculum
Australian Curriculum
Questions
14
Answers
Included, with working
Format
PDF (A4), print or complete online

Students will practise

  • grouping plants by observable features
  • describing how flowering and non-flowering plants reproduce
  • using scientific words such as seed, cone and spore
  • observing and describing a plant

Curriculum: Australian Curriculum. We show specific outcome codes only where they have been verified against the official curriculum document.

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Success TutoringWorksheetsYear 3 · Science · Living Things & Life Cycles

Grouping Plants: Flowering and Non-Flowering

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Look for flowers, fruits, cones or spores to decide the group.

Part A: Sorting the plant world

Read the passage. Then circle the best answer.

Scientists sort plants into groups by their features. One big question is: does it make flowers?

Flowering plants make flowers. The flowers make seeds, usually inside a fruit. Grasses, roses, sunflowers, beans and most trees with broad leaves are flowering plants.

Non-flowering plants do not make flowers. Conifers, such as pine and fir trees, make seeds inside cones and usually have needle-shaped leaves. Ferns and mosses do not make seeds at all. They grow from tiny spores and usually live in damp, shady places.

1.Where does a flowering plant make its seeds?
  1. Ain cones
  2. Bin spores
  3. Cinside fruits
  4. Dunder its leaves
2.Which plant makes spores instead of seeds?
  1. Aan apple tree
  2. Ba fern
  3. Ca sunflower
  4. Da pine tree
3.A pine tree makes its seeds in…
  1. Aflowers
  2. Bcones
  3. Cspores
  4. Dberries
4.Which feature would help you sort plants into groups?
  1. Ahow many people like them
  2. Bwhether they have flowers
  3. Cwhat pot they are in
  4. Dhow old the gardener is
5.Mosses are small, soft plants. Which is true about them?
  1. AThey have flowers.
  2. BThey make cones.
  3. CThey grow from spores and like damp places.
  4. DThey have woody trunks.

Part B: Match and explain

6.Match each plant to how it makes new plants.
  • sunflower
  • pine tree
  • fern
  • seeds in cones
  • spores
  • seeds in flowers
7.Ferns and mosses grow from tiny (answer space).
8.Trees such as pines and firs, which make seeds in cones, are called (answer space).
9.Grass does not have big, bright flowers. Is it a flowering plant? Explain. (answer space)

Part C: True or false?

Write True or False.

10.All plants make flowers. ☐ True   ☐ False
11.A tomato is the fruit of a flowering plant because it holds seeds. ☐ True   ☐ False
12.Mosses usually grow best in hot, dry places. ☐ True   ☐ False
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