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29 Guess the game 30 Plant trap

With which sport are these famous sports personalities associated? Write the Would you believe that there are some plants that eat insects and even small

name of the sport for each of them. animals from time to time? They are called insectivorous plants.
Read the clues and use the clue box to name the plants.

1. These plants have a pair of thick, padded leaves that
are covered with tiny hairs. When a fly touches the
hairs, the leaves shut like two powerful jaws.

2. These plants are shaped like a narrow tube. The top
1. Rohit Sharma 2. Martina Hingis 3. Cristiano Ronaldo and inside of the tube is covered with a slippery but

sweet smelling nectar. When insects come to take a sip,
they slip and fall into the tube. There, the plant breaks
them down.

3. The leaves of these plants are covered with a hair like
football cricket substance which produces a sticky juice. The sticky juice
cricket motor racing traps the insect and helps in its digestion.

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boxing 4. These plants are found in lakes and streams. They
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capture and digest tiny animals like insects, aquatic
worms and water fleas. The bladders are hollow traps

with a flexible door that opens to capture an insect.

5. These plants look like a cobra. It attracts insects with its
scent and sweet nectar on its tongue. Once the insect
is inside the plant’s tube like structure it slips and falls
into the lily’s trap where it is slowly digested.

5. Chris Gayle 6. Mike Tyson 7. Michael Schumacher

Info-bites
Info-bites Insectivorous plants are also called carnivorous

Michael Schumacher is a retired German racing driver. He won the Formula One sundew bladderwort plants because they eat insects, flies and other
World Championship seven times and is widely regarded as one of the greatest pitcher plant cobra lily small animals. There are around 630 different
Formula One drivers of all times. venus flytrap varieties of insectivorous plants.

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