PLANTS

Plants can be classified into three groups they're: Grasses, Bushes and trees

Grasses have a soft stem they're thin and flexible and are usually short.

Bushes have a thick, hard stem with low branches. They are taller then grasses and live longer.

Trees have a thick, hard stem called a trunk. They are the tallest plants and have high branches. Some trees can live for hundred years.

All plants have different parts but three of them are in all the plants they're leaves, stems and roots.

Leaves grow from the stems or branches. Leaves use sunlight to help make their own food. Deciduous trees lose all their leaves in autumn. Evergreen trees produce new leaves all year

Stems carry water and minerals from the roots to the rest of the plant. They also support the plant.

Roots are the part of the plant that is underground. Roots have two functions:
They absorb water and minerals that the plant needs to grow.
They fix the plant into the ground.

Leaves have two parts. They have a stalk and a blade. Some leaves are big and some are small. Leaves have different shapes. This is because they have different margins. There are many types of margins including entire, dentate, serrate, sinuate, lobbed, and palmate.

Some trees, bushes and grasses have flower. The reproductive organ of a plant is inside the flower. Flowers can be different shapes, sizes and colours but they all have common parts.

SEPALS are small green leaves that protect the flower before it opens.

The STAMENS have pollen at their ends. Insects take polen to other flowers

PETALS can be many different colours. They attract insects to the flower.

The CARPEL is the part of the flower where the seeds develop. It grows into a fruit, which has seeds inside. When the fruit falls to the ground a new plant can grow from the seed.

A plant have a life cycle of 7 parts they are:

1 Most seeds need warmth, water, sunlight and air to germinate.

2 Roots grow down form the seed.

3 A stem grows up.

  1. A flower grows on the plant.

6 Seeds develop in the carpel.

  1. The plant dies, but new plants can grow from its seeds.

4.Leaves grow on the stem. The plant can now make its own food.