Plants are Living Things

What does a plant need to grow?

• Plants need air, water, sunlight, and soil

• Plants need only water

• Plants need rocks

• Plants need food

Do all plants have flowers?

• Yes

• No

What tool can you use to see very small parts of plants?

• You can see tiny cells with a microscope

• You can see tiny cells with a telescope

• You can see tiny cells with a stethoscope

Do plants make their own food?

• Yes

• NO

MOST plants have:

• shoots, straws, and flowers

• roots, stems, and leaves

• stems, heads, and feet

• fruit, wood, and bark

When plants make food from sunlight it is called:

• solarsynthesis

• photons

• photosynthesis

• production

When plants make food they take in something from the air that is harmful to people. This bad air is called:

• smog

• pollution

• carbon dioxide

Plants take in carbon dioxide, and then release something into the air that animals and people need to breathe. So plants help clean the air by making:

• carbon monoxide

• chlorophyll

• H2O

• oxygen