1. Plants

2. Plant Needs
Sun
Air
Rain
soil
Different kinds of plants need different amounts of these things.

3. Plant Parts Leaves Stem Roots Take in the air and light
Carries water from roots to other parts of plants and supports plant above ground.
Roots
Hold a plant in the ground. They take in water and minerals from the soil.

4. Leaf Shapes
Wide and flat - maple and oak tree
Small and thick - jade plant
Smooth or rough edges
Star-shaped - sweet gum
Fan shaped - ginkgo plant

5. Growing Plants
From Seeds
What Seeds
Are

6. Seed: first stage in the growth of many plants
Seeds come in many different sizes and colors and can even be striped. However, all seeds become plants that look like the plants they came from.

7. What Seeds Need All seeds need water to grow.
This plant has germinated (small plant breaks out of the seed)
Root grows from it
Next, the seed breaks open and a young plant or seedling appears

8. Some Plants
Make Seeds
Plants that reproduce by seeds usually form more than one seed at a time.
2 Groups of plants form seeds:
Flowers – grow on bushes, trees or on small plants
Cones – evergreen trees (pine trees & spruce trees)
Cones have hard scales that protect the seeds
under them.

9. Some plants can be grown from other plant parts:
Leaf or piece of a stem – placed in water may form roots
Cutting- piece of leaf or stem used to grow new plant
Tubers and bulbs – underground plant parts also can grow new plants
Dandelions: form many seeds easily blown by wind
Bulb – part of stem (this flower grows from bulbs)
Seeds in watermelon are protected by its fruit.

10. Seed Parts Seed coat : Protects young plant inside the seed
Stored Food: Used by young plant to grow when seed sprouts
Seeds are like packages with tiny plant inside. The “package” is wrapped by the seed coat. Inside the seed coat is a seedling and food for the seedling.
Seedling: lives inside every seed

11. How Seeds
Are Spread
Shot out of the adult plant like cannonballs from a cannon
After seeds were shout out
Before seeds shout out
Animals or people
Air
Water
Cockleburs catch a ride on a shoe
Birds & other animals eat berries , the seeds pass through their digestive systems and are dropped onto the ground far from plant they came from.

12. How Plants
Make Food
Plants can make their own food, unlike people or other animals.
Photosynthesis: food making process
Chlorophyll: green color on plant – chlorophyll helps the plant use energy from the sun to make food.

13. Photosynthesis
Water & carbon dioxide combine inside a plant to make food. (a type of sugar)
Sunlight provides the energy needed for food to be made.
Plants also make oxygen during photosynthesis. Oxygen is given off through plants leaves.

14. How Plants Use Food To grow larger To make seeds
Store in stems & roots to be used later
Store sugar in fruits
Stems, leaves, roots, seeds, fruits and even flowers of plants are used as food by people and other animals.