Plants are living organisms that have roots, stems, and leaves. Roots draw water and nutrients from the soil up through the stem. Leaves breathe and produce the plant's food through photosynthesis. There are two main groups of flowering plants - gymnosperms which have cones and seeds but no fruit, and angiosperms which have flowers and fruit. Non-flowering plants like mosses and ferns need shade and moisture. All plants undergo respiration and make their own food through photosynthesis using sunlight, carbon dioxide, water, and minerals from the soil.

1. Pl ant s

2. What i s a pl ant ?
Plants are organisms which have roots,
stems and leaves.
Roots draw water and nutrients from the
soil and up through the stem
Stems also support the leaves.
Leaves breathe and make the plant’s
food.

3. Fl oweri ng pl ant s
Flowering plants are the biggest group of
plants. They can be either:
•Gymnosperms which have small
flowers, but no fruit. Instead their seeds
are all together in cones. They are almost
all trees, such as pine trees.

4. Fl oweri ng pl ant s
OR
•Angiosperms which have flowers and
fruit. Chestnut trees and some grasses are
angiosperms.

5. Non f l oweri ng pl ant s
Non-flowering plants are the smallest
group of plants. They need shade and
moisture. Non- flowering plants include:
Mosses- small plants which live on rocks,
trees and the ground.
Ferns- these are larger than mosses and
have thick underground stems and big
leaves.

6. Mos ses

7. Ferns

8. respi rat i on
Plants are living things so to survive they
have to breathe.
They take in oxygen from the air and
release carbon dioxide in an exchange of
gases called respiration.
Respiration takes places in the leaves day
and night.

9. Pl ant nut ri t i on
Plants obtain food in different ways to
animals.
They are autotrophs which means that
they make their own food.
They do this with sunlight, carbon
dioxide, water and minerals from the
soil.

10. Wat er and mi neral s
Water and minerals are important for
plant nutrition.
In the soil, minerals dissolve in water
which is then absorbed by plants through
their roots.
These nutrients are called raw sap and
they travel up the stem to the leaves.

11. phot osynt hes i s
Photosynthesis enables plants to make food
from sunlight, carbon dioxide, water and
minerals.
It takes place in the leaves where raw sap mixes
with carbon dioxide and becomes elaborated
sap. This is the plants food.
As sunlight is essential for photo-synthesis,
it only takes place
during the day.
During photo synthesis plants
release oxygen.

12. Carni vorous pl ant s
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