Plant Life Cycle

Plant Life Cycle

How living things grow, live, and die.1The Life Cycle of a PlantSeedGerminationStems and RootsFlowersPollination

2A life cycle of a PlantA life cycle shows how a living thing grows and changes. Plants exists in different shapes, sizes, and colors, but most share similar structures.While plants life cycles are continuous, the study of one plants life begins with the seed.

3What is a seed? When you look inside a seed. "You wear a coat to keep you from the cold. Seeds from flowering plants have seed coats to protect them."

4Seeds come in all shapes and sizesMost plants come from seeds. Inside a seed is a tiny new plant. The outside of the seed has a special covering called a seed coat.

5What do seeds need to grow? "What do children need to grow?"Well plants in order to grow, plants need sunlight, water, the right temperature conditions, soil, or a safe place. Plants adapt in different ways to get the things they need to survive.

6GerminationWhen the seed gets the right amount of water, warmth, and air it can begin to grow. The seeds begins to make a new life with water, sunlight, and soil.

7Stems and RootsStems grow up towards the light, leaves unfold to take more sunlight and produce foodRoots push down to anchor the new plants while they take up minerals and water from the soil.

8The seed will sproutIf conditions remain just right, after a time the little seed will sprout.As the sprout continues to develop, it will grow roots, a stem, leaves, and will form more seeds.At this stage, the life cycle of the plant begins again.

9It Starts With a SeedFrom a seed, a small root grows down into the soil.Then, the stem grows up toward the surface of the soil.Soon, the stem breaks through the soil.

10The Cycle continues Later, leaves begin to form on the plant stem.Now it is called seedling and can make its own food.Finally, the seedling develops into a plant which will look like the plant it came from.

11FlowersMany plants produce flowers.

12PollinationFlowers are pollinated in various ways by bees, birds, and other animals or even by the wind. At the base if each flower, seeds are formed.Remember: Bugs, wind, birds, and other animals pollinates a flower.13How do seeds travel?The wind, animals (bury and or deposit seeds by their droppings) are just some of the ways seeds travel.

14Can you put these steps in the order we did them?

Water the seed.Put soil in the cup.Put a small drainage hole in the bottom of the cup.Place the seed only about it's own depth in the soil and cover it up.Place the cup in the sun.

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