About Plants Worksheets

1 Plants in Our World

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

billion feed million rainforest

breathe grow produce type

1 to grow or make something

2 to give food to
3 to get bigger
4 a hot, rainy place with many trees
5 a very large number; 1,000,000,000
6 a large number; 1,000,000
7 to take in and let out air through your nose and mouth
8 a thing that is part of a category; kind

Pre-Reading Questions
Discuss the following questions in small groups.
1 Which came first, plants or animals?

2 What do plants produce?

Reading Comprehension
Read pages 4-5 and answer the following questions.

1 What is the passage mainly about?

a Telling how oxygen is produced
b Explaining what plants are
c Saying how many plants are in the rainforest

2 How are plants similar to animals?

a They move around
b They feed and breathe
c They keep growing

3 Scientists…
a have discovered every plant on Earth.
b know the exact number of plants there are.
c think the different kinds of plants is greater than 300,000.

4 Where did the first plants grow?

a In water
b On land
c Two billion years ago

5 How did plants make life possible for animals?

a Plants became a new kind of food.
b Plants need oxygen to live.
c Plants produced oxygen.

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.
1 Plants in Our World
Part 1 Vocabulary in Sentences

Fill in the vocabulary to complete the sentences below. Change the words to fit the sentence.

billion feed million rainforest

breathe grow produce type

1. Plants make life possible for us because they produce oxygen that lets us ___________
2. Many scientists research how plants _____________ different kinds of fruits and
vegetables.
3. With the global population reaching several ________________, if we want to be able to
_____________ everyone, we need to _____________ more grains and eat less meat.
4. The _______________ has the most abundant amount to plant life in the world.

Part 2 Sentence Patterns

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

1. Plants are different from animals.

2. Plants don't move from place to place.
3. Many of these plants grow in rainforests.
4. Before plants, animals did not live on Earth.
5. Plants were on Earth.
6. Plants produced oxygen and food for animals.

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.

Plants are living things.

They feed, breathe, grow, and make new plants.

There was no oxygen in the air.

This is a fossil of one of the first land plants.

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.

Plants are very important.

Plants do not move from place to place like animals do.

Part 5 Prepositional Phrases

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

1. Plants don't move from place to place like animals.

2. Many of these plants grow in rainforests.

3. Before plants, animals did not live on Earth.

4. Plants grew on land.