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Key Stage 1
Meaning
A plant is a living thing that has roots and can make its own food.
About Plants
Plants usually have a part of them that is green. Most often this is their leaves, but some plants have no leaves like a cactus. Some plants are wild and other plants are cultivated plants. We get fruits and vegetables from some plants but some plants have poisonous fruit that we can't eat.
Survival
To survive a plant needs water, warmth and light. An adult plant will wilt if it does not get enough water and then it could die. An adult plant will die if it gets too cold and wilt and then die it if gets too hot. An adult plant will not be able to make its own food if there is not enough light so the plant will lose its leaves and go into a dormant state.
Germination
When a seed is planted, if the conditions are right it will germinate and start to grow into an adult plant. If there is not enough water, and it is too cold or too hot, the seed will not germinate.
Examples
Moss is a small soft plant that can't grow flowers. | A tree is a large plant with a woody trunk. |
A fern is a plant that doesn't grow flowers. | A flower only grows on Flowering plants. |
- Some moss.
- A tree.
- A fern.
- A flowering plant.