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

Targets


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
Plants have four main parts, and each part has a specific function.  Test your knowledge by matching the parts of the plants with its function. Look at each of the images, pick its function, then check to see if you are right.

Functions:

  • makes food for plants
  • moves water and minerals from roots to leaves
  • makes seeds
  • takes water and minerals from the soil


Take water and minerals from the soil


Make seeds


Make food for the plants


Moves water and minerals from the roots to the leaves

Notebook

REMINDER:  You will be taking weekly observations of your lima bean plants for the Explore – Growing Your Own Plant activity. Be sure to note these in your chart, and save them to your Plant Notebook!