Lesson: 3.3. The strange world of carnivorous plants

What are carnivorous plants?

Where do carnivorous plants grow?

Why do these plants eat other living things?

What animals do they eat?

How does a carnivorous plant catch its prey?

The (a)   plant has long thin leaves covered in tiny (b)   .

• Sundew
• hairs
• veins

Then, the leaf curls around the (a)   and crushes it.

• insect
• leaf
• plant

1. When an insect______ ____ the leaves, it is trapped by the thick sticky liquid.

(a)  

b.  Then, the leaf _____ ______ the insect and crushes it.

(a)  

c.  The Sundew plant has long (a)   leaves covered in tiny hairs.