Plants

We can classify plants in their stems (tallo):

Grasses

have a thick (grueso) hard stem. They have low branches (ramas bajas). have a thick, hard stem called trunk. They have high branches
have a soft stem.

Bushes Trees

Are they grasses, bushes or trees?

- grasses - bush

- tree

- grasses

- tree

Parts of plants

- leave

- stem

Complete:
-leaves grow from the stems (tallo) or branches (ramas)

- Leaves use the sunlight to help make their own food.

Deciduous trees Ever green trees

Lose all their leaves in autumn.

Produce new leaves all year

Complete:
- stem carry water and minerals from the roots (races) to the rest of the plant.

- Steam support the plants

Complete:
- Roots are underground (bajo tierra) . - Roots absorb (absorve) _minerals and water that the plant needs to grow (crecer).

- Roots fix (fija) the plant into the ground

Parts of plants
- Use the sunlight to - leaves
help make their own food - Carry water and minerals from the roots to the rest of the plant - Support the plant

- stem -roots

- Absorb water and minerals that the plant need to grow

Leaves:

Leaves have two parts: - stalk - blade

blade

stalk

Leaves have different margins:

Lobed

Sinuate

Entire

Palmate

Dentate

Serrate

Leaves have different margins:

lobed

sinuate

entire

palmate

dentate

serrate

Flowers:
The reproductive organs of a plant are inside the flowers. The reproductive organs make seeds grow into new plants

Parts of flowers:
- Can be many different colours
- They attract insects to the flower - Have pollen at their ends. - Insects take pollen to other flowers

-The seeds develop.

- It grows into a fruit. - The fruit has seeds inside.

- Are small green leaves. - Protect the flower

Parts of flowers:
stamen

petal
sepal

carpel

Seeds need: - warmth - water - sunlight - air to germinate

The life cycle of a plant:

Roods grow down from the seed.

dies.

s can grow eeds.

A stem grows u

develop in the

Leaves grow on the steam.

The plant can make its own food.

A flower grows on the plant.