4.

-PLANTS

1.- CLASSIFICATION

We can classify plants by the:

STEM:
1) Grasses Thin, soft and flexible stem / No branches.
2) Bushes Thick, hard stem / Low branches.
3) Trees - Thick, hard stem ( trunk) / High branches.

FLOWERS:
1) Flowering plants
2) Non-flowering plants

There are two kinds of trees:

- Deciduous (they lose their leaves in autumn)
- Evergreen (keep their leaves all year)

2.-REPRODUCTION:

Flowering plants: They use seeds to reproduce.

Angiosperm- The seed is inside a fruit.
Gymnosperm- The seed is inside a cone.

Non-flowering plants: They use spores to reproduce.

For example: mosses and ferms.
 3. POLLINATION

Animals pollination – It happens when an insect transfers the pollen from one plant to another plant.

Wind pollination -It happens when the wind blows the pollen, from one plant to another.

4.-PLANT NUTRITION
Plants are living things. They need FOOD to live and grow.
Plants are PRODUCERS so they produce their own food – PHOTOSYNTHESIS.
 1.- Roots (raices) absorb water and minerals. The mixture is called Raw Sap (Sabia bruta.)
2.- The raw sap goes up the stem to the leaves (hojas).
3.- In the leaves, there is a green substance called chlorophyll. This substance absorbs the
solar energy and the carbon dioxide from the air.
4.- Through the process of the PHOTOSYNTHESIS the raw sap changes to the Elaborated Sap
(Sabia elaborada).
5.- The elaborated sap goes to the rest of the plant.
6.- An important thing is that with the photosynthesis the plant releases OXYGEN.

PLANT RESPIRATION

Plants need to breathe in order to live.

DAY and NIGHT: They absorb oxygen from the air and expel carbon dioxide as waste.
In the DAYTIME during PHOTOSYNTHESIS they release more oxygen than they need.

MORE OXYGEN