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Plants SEE ALSO

▸ ▸ Flowers p.103
▸ ▸ Food p.106
Plants are living things that make their own ▸ ▸ Fruit and seeds
food using energy from the sun. Most p.115
plants stay in one place, with roots ▸ ▸ Insects p.134

that fix them in the ground. ▸ ▸ Photosynthesis
p.191

▸ ▸ Trees p.261

Types of plants Flowers produce
There are four main groups of plants. seeds, which grow Before a flower opens,
it is called a bud.
into new plants.
Some have flowers, like hibiscus. Others
don’t, such as conifers and mosses.

Leaves make the food
Conifer that keeps plants alive
and helps them grow.
Plants that have
seeds in cones
are called
conifers. They
are mainly trees.
Flowering plant The stem helps keep
Most plants have the plant upright. It also
flowers, which transports water and
make seeds.
minerals to the leaves.

Moss Fern Plants are
These leafy plants grow Ferns don’t have flowers. the only living
where it is damp and dark. Their leaves start off very things that live
small and uncurl as they grow. on every

continent.
Meat-eating plants
Some plants get extra energy by catching and eating
animals, such as insects. Some even catch frogs! The
plant shown here is called a Venus flytrap.

The plant
The insect’s squeezes all Roots anchor the
plant in the soil.
weight makes the juices out
Sweet nectar the trap shut. of the insect.
lures the insect
into the plant.

Tiny hairs on the plant’s
roots take in minerals
and water from the soil.

Hibiscus plant
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