What Living Things Need
I am a living thing that makes my own food.
What is a green plant?
This can grow into a new plant. Most fruits have these.
What is a seed?
When a fruit is _________ it can be picked and is ready to be eaten.
What is ripe?
I hold the plant in the soil. I also take in water and minerals. I also store food for the plant.
What are the roots?
I am the name of the seed for an oak tree. Squirrels eat me.
What is an acorn?
I am the 3 BASIC things a plant needs to make its own food.
What is sunlight, CO2 and water.
I am 3 things that can move pollen between flowers. Also these can be ways seeds are dispersed also.
What are birds, bees, wind and water.
Fruits protect me. I live inside a fruit. There can be 1 or me or many, many of me.
What is a seed?
I take in air and use sunlight to make food.
What are leaves?
A large seed from a tree that might drop from it onto a beach and then get dispersed to another place by floating in the water.
What is a coconut?
When plants make food, they give off this gas. We need to breathe this in order to live.
What is oxygen?
The word people use to say that seeds are spreading to grow in other places.
What is pollination
I am an orange fruit with many seeds. I am round and shiny on the outside and juicy on the inside.
What is an orange?
I hold up the plant. I allow water and food to travel through the plant.
What is the stem?
Trees and other plants that live in very wet places have me, especially in a place like a rain forest.
What are large leaves?
Bits of rock and soil that help plants and animals grow.
What are minerals?
What is the first step in the life cycle of a seed where we see roots and a small leaf?
Sprout or Seedling
I am can be small and round or a little larger up to the size of a baseball and I turn from green to another color. People grow me in the summer, slice me up and eat me sometimes even sprinkling a little salt on me.
What is a tomato?
The part of a plant that can become a fruit.
What is a flower?
This tree lives in a very dry place. There are spines on it to protect it from animals trying to eat it and get liquid from the inside.
What is a cactus?
What do plants go through to make their own food?
Photosynthesis
What is the process called of a seed growing from a seed to become the fruit we enjoy?
Germination or Life Cycle
Roots always grow down into me to keep the plant in one place. There are many minerals in me. And the fruit plant anchors into me.
What is the ground or soil?
Most flowers make me. I am a sticky powder or seed inside the flower than helps to make other seeds. Bees and wind usually carry me around.
What is pollen?
I am a flower that has seeds that move with the wind. I have long, light tufts that can float in the air. I am white and circular shaped.
What is a dandelion?