So they can grow more apple trees! The seeds get bigger inside the apple and stay safe until they are fully grown. When the seeds are ready, the apple falls to the ground. Some are eaten by animals and some just rot away. Eventually some seeds find their way into the ground and start to grow a new tree.
Seed food
Coffee and chocolate come from ground-up seeds, and so does pepper. Achoo!
Tree seeds
Nuts have seeds inside their shell. Squirrels collect nuts and put them away to eat later. Sometimes squirrels forget about their nutty hiding places, and so the nuts stay in the ground and grow into trees.
Seeds take a hike
- Some seeds -such as dandelions -are carried away by the wind.
- Some seeds have little hooks that stick to animals' fur and get a free ride to another place.
