Plants and animals

Students know both plants and animals need water, animals need food, and plants need light.. Students know roots are associated with the intake of water and soil nutrients and green l

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Living Things

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Standard Set 2 Life Sciences

2 Plants and animals meet their

needs in different ways As a basis for

understanding this concept:

2.b. Students know both plants and

animals need water, animals need

food, and plants need light.

2.e. Students know roots are

associated with the intake of water and soil nutrients and green leaves are associated with making food from sunlight.

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by Kim Fields

What are plants?

Plants are living things

Living things are alive.

Living things have needs

2

A cactus is a plant

A cactus is living

Plants can grow

Plants can change

3

What Plants Need

A need is something a living thing

must have to live

Plants need water to live

Plants also need air

5

Plants need light

Plants get light from the Sun

Plants need this light to grow

How do plants

meet their needs?

Plants have parts

Many plants have the same parts

These parts help the plant live

They help the plant get things it

needs to grow

6

Roots

Most plants have roots

Roots keep plants in the

ground

Roots get water from the soil

Roots get nutrients from the soil

Nutrients are materials that

living things need

7

Roots

8

Plants Make Food

Plants must have food

Leaves of green plants make food.

The roots take in water and nutrients

The stem takes water and nutrients

to the leaves

Stem

Flower

9

Green leaves take in air

Green leaves take in energy from sunlight

Green leaves use water, air, and energy from sunlight to make food

What do animals

need?

You know living things are alive

Animals are living things

Animals can grow and change

10

This whale is an animal.

11

Animals have needs

They need air

They need water

They need food

Animals eat food to live

Birds need food and water.

leaves the parts of a plant that make

food for the plant

living things that are alive, grow,

and change

nutrients materials that living things need

roots part of a plant that holds the

plant in the ground and takes

in water and nutrients from the soil

2 What do animals need to live?

were given a plant as a gift Write about how you will take care of the plant to keep it alive

some animals that you know?