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Plants

Plants. What is a Plant?. A plant is a living thing that makes its own food, using energy from sunlight. Other living things depend on plants for food and for somewhere to live. Do all plants have flowers?. Not all plants have flowers. The simplest kinds of plants do not have flowers.

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Plants

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  1. Plants

  2. What is a Plant? A plant is a living thing that makes its own food, using energy from sunlight. Other living things depend on plants for food and for somewhere to live.

  3. Do all plants have flowers? • Not all plants have flowers. • The simplest kinds of plants do not have flowers. • The simplest plants include mosses, ferns, and conifers, such as pine trees.

  4. Plants without flowers Mosses

  5. Plants without flowers Ferns

  6. Plants without flowers Conifers: cone-bearing trees

  7. The Flowering Plants There are many different kinds of flowering plants. Compared to other plants, flowering plants are “newcomers” on Earth.

  8. Where do flowering plants grow? Flowering plants can grow almost anywhere, from mountains… Rock Rose

  9. Where do flowering plants grow? …in deserts Succulent plants store water in leaves. Saguaro Cactus Hummingbird feeds on cactus bloom.

  10. Where do flowering plants grow? They can even grow in water! Amazonian Water Lily

  11. A Plant Is Born The seed coat splits. The root grows downward. A tiny shoot appears, then breaks through the soil to reach sunlight. The first leaves use the sun’s energy to make food for the plant.

  12. Bursting into Bloom Summer: Flowers open and are pollinated Fall: Plant dies and seeds are scattered Spring: Plant grows quickly Winter Spring: Seeds germinate

  13. A New Plant Is Born! The life cycle of the plant begins again with the sprouting of the new seeds!

  14. Parts of a Flowering Plant Plants are fascinating and fun to study. There are many things to learn about plants. Botanists are scientists who work to discover more and more about plants. Do plants make you wonder about life on Earth? Do you think there are plants on other planets? Why or why not?

  15. If you want to learn more… If plants “capture” your imagination… Read! The information and many of these pictures are from Plant by David Burnie. Check it out! Venus Flytrap captures a damselfly.

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