About Plants Worksheets

2 Different Plants
Vocabulary
Look up the vocabulary words in your dictionary and match them to the definitions below.

kilogram conifer flower seed

centimeter fern moss spore

1 what a plant grows from

2 a small, green plant that has no flowers
3 a plant that does not produce seeds of flowers.
4 massed cells able to reproduce new plants
5 the blossom of a plant
6 a unit of measuring weight
7 a plant that produced seeds in cones
8 a unit of measuring length

Pre-Reading Questions
Discuss the following questions in small groups.
1 What do plants grow from?

2 What are some different kinds of plants?

Reading Comprehension
Read pages 6-7 and answer the following questions.

1 What is the passage mainly about?

a How plants grow
b How plants make new plants
c What spores are

2 Which of the following is true?

a All seed plant produce flowers.
b Scientists group plants into two groups
c The most common plant you see are flowering plants.

3 A conifer is…
a a flowering plant.
b A 4 kilogram cone.
c a cone producing plant.

4 Ferns make new plants.

a with spores
b with mosses
c with seeds

5 What are some of the tallest trees in the world?

a Flowering trees
b Conifers
c Non-Seed plants

Time: _______ Score: ____ / 10

At home study: Reread the passage. Highlight vocabulary words and underline passages
that are difficult to understand. Look up the meaning and take memos in your book.
2 Different Plants
Part 1 Vocabulary in Sentences
Fill in the vocabulary to complete the sentences below. Change the words to fit the sentence.

kilogram conifer flower seed

centimeter fern moss spore

1. Some the heaviest pine cones can wiegh more than four _________________.

2. There are two main groups of seed plants, flowering plants and _______________.

3. On the back of a _____________ leaf, you can find many tiny ____________.

Part 2 Sentence Patterns

Identify the sentence patterns for each sentence; SV, SVO, SVC, SVA
Write the sentence base.

1. Scientists put plants into different groups.

2. New plants grow from the seeds.
3. Most of the plants around you are flowering plants.
4. The biggest cones can be 40 centimeters long.
5. Ferns and mosses are non-seed plants.
6. Non-seed plants don't make seeds

Pattern Subject Verb OC/

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Part 3 Adjectives
Identify the adjectives by underlining with green. Draw a line over the sentence to the word it
modifies. Write the kind of information the adjective answers:
What kind of, which, how many, how much, whose.

There are many different types of plant.

Some seed plants produce cones

Some of the world's tallest trees are conifers.

New plants grow from these spores.

Part 4 Adverbs
Identify the adverbs by underlining with orange. Draw a line under the sentence to the word it
modifies. Write the kind of information the adverb answers:
Where, When, How, To What Extent, Why.

How many flowering plants do you know?

They do not make seeds.

Part 5 Prepositional Phrases

Circle the preposition and put ( ) around the prepositional phrase.
Does it act like an Adjective or adverb?

1. New plants grow from the seeds.

2. Flowering plants produce all the fruit for us to eat.

3. New mosses start growing from spores.