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Meet the Plants
Identifying and defining plants
What do plants need to grow?
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Air
Water – not too
much!!
Light
Soil
What are the parts of a plant?
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Flower
This part makes seeds.
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Stem
This part carries food and water through the plant.
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Leaf
This part makes food for the plant.
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Root
This part carries water from the soil to the plant.
Kinds of plants
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Edible
You can eat it – fruit and vegetables
*lettuce
* carrots
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Non-edible
Don’t eat these
*poison ivy
More kinds of plants
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Flowering
Plants that have flowers to attract insects.
Non-Flowering
Plants that don’t have flowers-only leaves.
*ivy
*ferns
Conifers
Plants that grow cones and do not lose their leaves.
Deciduous
Plants that lose their leaves each fall.
Plants are used in many ways.
•Lumber comes from trees.
•Paper comes from trees.
•Gum comes from tree sap.
•Medicines come from many plants
•Cloth comes from cotton plants.