Plant Needs
Parts of Plants
Classification
How Plants Meet Their Needs
Animals
100
A living thing that grows on land or in the water, cannot move from place to place, and usually has green leaves.
What is a PLANT?
100
The purpose of this plant part is to take in water and nutrients from the soil.
What is the ROOTS?
100
This is how scientists classify all plants and animals.
What is TRAITS or CHARACTERISTICS?
100
The area of land that surrounds and affects a living thing.
What is ENVIRONMENT?
100
This is an animal that eats only meat.
What is a CARNIVORE?
200
Plants need water, air, and __________.
What is SUNLIGHT?
200
The purpose of this plant part is to hold up the leaves and carry water and nutrients through the plant.
What is the STEM?
200
This is a tube that carries food, water, and nutrients throughout a leaf.
What is a VEIN?
200
Some plants such as these store water for later use.
What is CACTUS?
200
This is an animal that eats only plants.
What is an HERBIVORE?
300
Besides water, air, and sunlight, most plants also need ______.
What is soil?
300
The plant part collects sunlight and gases from the air. It uses them to make food for the plant.
What is LEAVES?
300
Plants are classified by how the feel. This is called ________.
What is TEXTURE?
300
Trees that grow in areas where the nutrients is near the surface of the soil grow these kind of roots.
What is SHALLOW?
300
This is an animal that eats both plants and animals.
What is an OMNIVORE?
400
What does a sunflower need to grow?
What is water, air, sunlight, and soil?
400
This is the smallest and most basic unit of a living thing. All animals and plants are made of them.
What are CELLS?
400
Plants are classified by the way the edges of a leaf look. This is called _________.
What is LEAF MARGIN?
400
The larger the tree, the larger the ________ to support the tree.
What is ROOTS?
400
Animals that find food by hunting smaller animals.
What is a PREDATOR?
500
A substance that living things need to survive and grow.
What is a NUTRIENT?
500
This is the process in which plants make their own food.
What is PHOTOSYNTHESIS?
500
Plants are classified by their structure. For example some have soft ______ and others have wooden _______.
What are STEMS?
500
This is how plants make new plants... Give an example.
What is REPRODUCE? or SEEDS?
500
Animals that are near the bottom of the food chain and could easily be eaten by a larger animal.
What is PREY?
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