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Level 7 ➞ Learn About ➞ Environment L A b n o r u a ts e Non-Fiction Graded Readers Titles in Level 7 What Do Clothes Cost? Energy from the Sun From Plan to Building Tell Me about the Continents The Life Cycle of a Frog How Do Plants Grow? The Moon What Does the Referee Do? Games around the World Caves How Do Plants Grow? How Do Plants Grow? Written by Margaret MacDonald Cover photograph of unearthing potatoes Photography by Photolibrary (cover, p2 soil, p15); Birdwing (RJ p1, p2 sunlight, p11; JF p2 water, p13; p5); Photodisc (p2 air, p3, p9); Macmillan Education Australia (p7) © 2013 Macmillan Education Australia Pty Ltd All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of the copyright owner. While every care has been taken to trace and acknowledge copyright, the publishers tender their apologies for any accidental infringement where copyright has proved untraceable. Published by Macmillan Education Australia Pty Ltd Level 1, 15–19 Claremont Street, South Yarra, Victoria 3141 www.macmillan.com.au Edited by Ruth Adeane-Nancarrow Printed in China 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 ISBN: 978-1-4586-4268-4 Word Count High-Frequency Words 274 all, do, from, get, help, if, little, make, may, no, not, of, out, people, put, that, their, them, they, too, when, where, will, with Vocabulary Words garden, nutrients, pores, sunlight, vegetables How Do Plants Grow? Picture Dictionary 2 Look at the gardens near where you live. Look at all the plants that grow in a garden. air sunlight soil water 3 Things That Grow in a Garden People grow many kinds of plants in a garden. People grow plants to eat. Fruit and vegetables are plants that people eat. People grow plants because they look good. Grass and flowers bring colour to a garden. bushes fruits flowers grass nuts Weeds grow in gardens, too. People take out the weeds. trees 4 vegetables weeds 5 How Do Plants Grow? water How do plants grow in a garden? Most garden plants need four things to grow. Plants need – • Air • Sunlight • Water • Soil sunlight leaf stem soil 6 flower air roots 7 Air Plants need air to grow. They get the air they need through little holes in their leaves. These holes are called pores. If you put a plant in a place with no air it will die. Plants breathe air through pores in their leaves. 8 9 Sunlight Plants need sunlight to grow. When the sun shines on a plant, the plant’s leaves trap energy from the sunlight. They use the sunlight to make their food. They use the food to help them grow. If you put a plant in a place with no sunlight, it cannot make food. It will die. 10 These flowers use sunlight to grow. 11 Water These boys are watering the garden. Plants need water so they can grow. Plants get water when it rains. They get water when someone waters them. Plants suck up the water in soil. They suck it up with their roots. The water goes from the roots through the stem to the leaves. Plants will die without water. 12 13 Soil Plants need soil to grow. Plants get water from soil. But plants need more than just water to grow. Plants get food from the soil. This food is called nutrients. If a plant cannot get the nutrients it needs, it will not grow well. It may die. These potatoes used nutrients in soil to help them grow. 14 15 Activity Page 1. Draw a plant that grows in a garden. 2. Label the parts. 3. Write what it needs to grow. Do you know the dictionary words? 16