Plants WORKSHEET 3

Name: ____________________ Date: _________________

1. What do plants need to grow?

2. Number the sentences in order.

Elaborated sap is distributed.

Roots absorb water and minerals through their roots. This is called raw sap.

Raw sap, carbon dioxide and oxygen transform into elaborated sap through photosynthesis.

Raw sap travels up from the roots to the leaves.

Plants take in carbon dioxide through stomata in the leaves.

In the leaves, chlorophyll absorbs sunlight.

3. Answer these following questions about the process of photosynthesis:

photosynthesis - oxygen - leaves - nutrition - roots

a) What part of the plant absorbs sunlight and carbon dioxide from the air? _____________.

b) What part of the plant absorbs water and minerals from the soil? ___________________.

c) What do plants make that people and animals need to breathe? ____________________.

d) Which life process is the photosynthesis related to? ______________________________.

e) What is the name of the process where plants make their own food? ________________.