How are plants important to their natural environments?


Targets
At the end of this unit, you should be able to answer the following questions:

1. What is the importance of plants?

1.1 How are plants important to humans?

1.2 How are plants important to their natural environments?

1.3 How do humans affect plants?
2. How do plants grow and make other plants?

2.1 What are the various parts of a plant and their purposes?

2.2 What do plants need to grow?

2.3 How do flowering plants propagate?

2.4 How are seeds distributed?
3. What are plant communities?

3.1 What are plant communities?

3.2 What do plants living in my backyard have in common?

3.3 What plants have special needs?
Targets
You have discovered many important uses for plants in our daily lives.  Are plants also important to the natural environments in which they are found?
Consider this…

A plant’s natural environment is the area in which a plant lives and everything that surrounds it.

What is part of a plant’s surrounding area?

What animals are part of a plant’s surrounding area?

What other plants are part of a plant’s surrounding area?

 Notebook

  1. Open the Journal Entry page you saved to your Plant Notebook folder.  
  2. Write your responses to the questions under Entry 4. 
  3. You will be working on this journal entry again, so make sure you save what you have to your Plant Notebook.