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Wow! The seed pod is
drying and splitting!

Wow! I’ll have more siblings.

Dispersal by explosive mechanism.

Characteristics of seeds or fruits:
• seed pods dry out.
• seed pods split open.

garden balsam seeds

Now you know that plants are dispersed in different
ways. They are dispersed by wind, water, animals,
and humans as well as by explosive mechanism.

After reading the story of the balsam seed
and its parent plant, state the different
ways plants disperse their seeds or fruits.

HAWA
TEACHER'S Seed pods are hard skin of the seeds that break
NOTE when they mature. 107