Plant Needs

Plant Needs

By Lauren Ebeling

• Do you feed your plants hamburgers?

• What about dog food?

• Cat food?

• Do they make plant/tree food?

• Does anyone know how plants eat?​

Would a plant survive if you gave it a sandwich?

How do plants eat?

•Plants use their leaves to absorb sunlight.

•absorb: to take in or soak up

•They take the sunlight, mixed with oxygen (air) and water in order to make their food.

•Plants don’t have mouths to eat with like we do, they create their own food on the inside when they have the right mixture.

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Sunlight

• Can a plant sip from a straw?

• Do they like juice?

• Maybe Gatorade?

• Water?

• Does anyone know how plants drink?

Would a plant survive if you gave it milk?

How do plants drink?

• Plants use their roots to absorb water from the soil in a process called osmosis.

• osmosis: the movement of liquid into a living thing.

• Plants take the sunlight, mixed with oxygen (air) and water in order to make their food.

• Plants don’t have mouths to drink like we do, they use their roots like a straw and pull the water up into the plant.

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Water