uniT REinforcement Nutrition in plants

3 Name:  Date:  Class: 

1 Jaime shows his friend Anna the plant he has given his grandmother and asks her for advice
on how to make the plant grow strong and healthy. Read Anna’s reply and answer the
questions.
I don’t know. I fill up Nuca’s food
bowl every day, I give him fresh
water and I take him for a walk.

a) Do you think this advice could be useful to Jaime so he can take care of his plant? Why?

b) Jaime got a little confused trying to explain to Anna that his plant makes its own food and
that it doesn’t need food like Nuca does. Help him by ordering steps 1 to 4.

  Raw sap travels through the vessels to the leaves.

  It absorbs water and minerals from the soil.

  Elaborate sap travels though the vessels to the rest of the plant.

  Photosynthesis takes place in the leaves.

c) Where would you place the plant if you were Jaime? Explain your answer.

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uniT REINFORCEMENT Reproduction in plants

3 Name:  Date:  Class: 

1 Clara and Diego are curious about a bee that travels from flower to flower. She tries to explain
to him that the bee is carrying out a very important task.

The bee carries pollen from one Really?

plant to another. This helps them
reproduce.

a) Which reproduction process is Clara describing?

b) What does a seed tranform into when it reacher a flower’s ovary and it connects to the
ovule?

c) W
 hen the corolla and the calyx wither and fall, which part of the flower continues to grow
and bear fruit?

d) What is the germination process?

e) Label the parts of the flower.

Corolla

Pistil

Calyx

Stamen

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