Transcript PLANTS 5th grade

PLANTS
th
5 grade
By: Adrianne Graziano
LRC 320- Final Project
Why Study Plants?
• Plants capture energy in sunlight for all
other organisms to use.
• Plants release oxygen for all to breathe
and provide essential minerals to
organisms that eat plants.
• Plants can be used as treatments and
cures.
• Plants are part of our world and they
enrich our lives.
Terms to Know
• Botany: the classical term to
describe the study of plants.
• Biologists: scientists who study
living things
• Plant Biologists: the biologists
who study plants.
Plant Structure
• Plants can be either herbaceous or woody. Most
herbaceous plants have stems that are soft, green,
and contain little woody tissue.
• Herbaceous: Plants with stems that are nonwoody and die back to the ground every year.
Some herbaceous plants include marigolds,
zinnias, grass, tomatoes, green beans and
geraniums.
• Woody: Stems that are hard. These stems usually
don't die back to the ground during the winter.
These are stems we use to make things like
furniture and houses. Woody plants include oak
trees, maple trees, lilacs, apple trees and
magnolias.
What parts of the plant do we
eat?
A large part of what people eat is made
up of plants or parts of plants. In fact, plants
contain many of the nutrients that help us
live healthy lives.
• ROOTS
SEEDS
LEAVES
FRUITS
FLOWER
STEMS
PODCAST: QUIZ
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CONCEPT MAP
Website Resources
• http://www.mbgnet.net/bioplants/
• http://www.mcwdn.org/Plants/PlantsMain.h
tml
• http://www.mckeowninc.com/plants.html
• http://library.thinkquest.org/3715/
• http://www.biology4kids.com/files/plants_
main.html
This concludes this
lecture about Plants
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