1. Jennifer McKnight
July 14, 2009

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3. Plants Are Living Things
 Like all living things,
plants grow and change.
 To grow, plants need
food, water, air, and
space.
 Plants can make other
living things like
themselves. Nonliving
things can not do this.
 Plants may have
different shapes, sizes,
and colors.

4. Parts of Plants
Protect seeds  The parts of a plant
Make new help the plant get
Make seeds what it needs.
plants
Fruit  Some parts help it
Flowers Seeds get
Plant Parts light, water, air, an
d minerals.
Leaves Roots  Other parts help it
Stem make new plants.
 The parts of a plant
Make food
Holds up
Take in Water are the
plants leaves, stem, roots
, flowers, fruit, and
seeds.

5. Parts of Plants
Fruit:
The fruit is the
Leaves: part of a plant
Leaves take that grows around
in air and seeds. It protects
use light to the seeds.
make food.
Other Plant Parts:
Flowers: Flowers
make seeds.
Seeds: Seeds can
grow into new
plants.
Stem:
A stem holds up Roots:
the plant. It Roots hold the
carries food and plant in the soil.
water to all the They take in
plant parts. water and
minerals from the
soil.

6. Everyone Needs Plants
 Many things you use every day come
from plants.
 The cotton plant can be used to make
clothes.
 Some plants are used to make medicine.
 Trees are used for wood and for paper
products.
 Most importantly, plants make oxygen.
 People also eat different plant parts.
YouTube Video: Bill Nye the Science Guy

7. Everyone Needs Plants
Herbs and Spices
Oxygen Medicine
Plant Uses
Food Clothing
Wood

8. Credits
Daniel, Lucy H., Jay Hackett, Richard H.
Moyer, and JoAnne Vasquez.North
Carolina Science. Teacher's ed. New
York, NY: Macmillan/McGraw-Hill, 2006.
Print.
"Bill Nye the Science Guy." YouTube.
2009. YouTube, LLC. 13 Jul 2009
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ofu
iX5RnoY&feature=PlayList&p=A98FCFE49
086D30F&index=60>.

9. What is the part of a plant
that can grow into a new
plant?
a) Flower
b) Roots
c) Seed
d) Leaves

10. What is the plant part that
grows around the seeds?
a) Stem
b) Fruit
c) Leaves
d) Trunk

11. Plants help people breathe
by making _______.
a) Carbon Dioxide
b) Nitrogen
c) Carbon Monoxide
d) Oxygen

12. Plants grow and ______.
a) Change
b) Eat
c) Breathe
d) Create Carbon Dioxide

13. Plants can make their own
___.
a) Water
b) Food
c) Minerals
d) Light

14. CORRECT! GOOD JOB!

15. INCORRECT! TRY AGAIN!