For the answers hover over the photograph. The variety shouldn’t affect how the seed looks but there may be differences in the seedhead itself.

Seeds to use For a Children’s Quiz

1. A pea is a seed
2. Sunflower seeds with your breakfast or in your bread are interesting seeds.
3. Potatoes are seeds or more correctly tubers that act like seeds.
4. Wild Bird and budgie seed are obviously seeds. They often sprout into grasses or millet.
5. There are lots of different beans to use in a seed quiz – even baked beans count but they will never germinate as they have been cooked.
6. Mustard and cress seeds are fun to sow and grow and you soon learn the difference between the two.
7. Apple or orange pips are easy to collect.
8. Soft fruit have lots of seed and on strawberries they grow on the outside of the red skin