What are plant communities?


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
In this lesson, you will discover what a plant community is and learn a few of the various types of plant communities.  Before you begin the lesson, what do you think a plant community is?

Look at the image collage. Each picture shows a different plant community.  Based on your observation of the pictures, what do you think a plant community is?
Desert




Forest




Tundra




Grassland




Rainforest


 Notebook

  1. 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!

  1. Open the Journal Entry page you saved to your Plant Notebook folder. 
  2. Write your responses to the above questions under Entry 7. 
  3. check your answers below, and remember to date and save your journal entry.
 

Check Your Answers


7. What do you think a plant community is?
  • A group of plants living together in one area.