About Plants Worksheets

1 Plants in Our World

Vocabulary
Look up the vocabulary words in your dictionary and match them to the definitions below.

billion feed million rainforest

breathe grow produce type

1 produce to grow or make something

2 feed to give food to
3 grow to get bigger
4 rainforest a hot, rainy place with many trees
5 billion a very large number; 1,000,000,000
6 million a large number; 1,000,000
7 breathe to take in and let out air through your nose and mouth
8 type a thing that is part of a category; kind

Pre-Reading Questions
Discuss the following questions in small groups.
1 Which came first, plants or animals?

2 What do plants produce?

Reading Comprehension
Read pages 4-5 and answer the following questions.

1 What is the passage mainly about?

a Telling how oxygen is produced
b Explaining what plants are
c Saying how many plants are in the rainforest

2 How are plants similar to animals?

a They move around
b They feed and breathe
c They keep growing

Plants are living things (like animals). They feed, breathe, grow, and make
new plants, but they are different from animals. Plants don't move from place to
place like animals do. Plants keep growing, but animals don't grow when they are
older.

3 Scientists…
a have discovered every plant on Earth.
b know the exact number of plants there are.
c think the different kinds of plants is greater than 300,000.

Scientists don't know how many plants there are, but they think that there
are more than 300,000 types! Many of these plants grow in rainforests. Scientists
think that there are thousands more plants that we don't know about yet.
4 Where did the first plants grow?
a In water
b On land
c Two billion years ago ( when they grew )

There were plants on Earth more than two billion years ago! The first plants
didn't grow on land – they (plants) grew in water. It took hundreds of millions of
years for plants to change and to grow on land.

5 How did plants make life possible for animals?

a Plants became a new kind of food.
b Plants need oxygen to live.
c Plants produced oxygen.

Before plants, animals did not live on Earth. There was no oxygen in the air,
and animals need to breathe oxygen. Plants produced oxygen and food for
animals. They made life possible for us!

1 Plants in Our World

Part 1 Vocabulary in Sentences

Fill in the vocabulary to complete the sentences below. Change the words to fit the sentence.

Plants make life possible for us because they produce oxygen that lets us breathe

1. Many scientist research how plants produce / grow different kinds of fruits and

vegetables.

2. With the global population reaching several billion, if we want to be able to feed

everyone, we need to produce / grow more grains and eat less meat.

3. The rainforest has the most abundant amount to plant life in the world.
Part 2 Sentence Patterns
Identify the sentence patterns for each sentence, and write the sentence base.
Sentence Base Subject Verb Object Compliment
Modifiers Adj. Adv. Prep. Phrases ()()
1. Plants are different ( from animals ) .
2. Plants don't move ( from place )(to place ).
3. Many ( of these plants ) grow ( in rainforests).
4. ( Before plants ), animals did not live ( on Earth ).
5. Plants were (on Earth ).
6. Plants produced oxygen and food ( for animals ).

Pattern Subject Verb OC/

1 SVC Plants are different
2 SV Plants do move /
3 SV Many grow /
4 SV animals did live /
5 SVA Plants were /
6 SVO Plants produced oxygen food

Part 3 Adjectives
Identify the adjectives by underlining with green. Draw a line over the sentence to the word it
modifies. Write the kind of information the adjective answers:
What kind of, which, how many, how much, whose.

What kind of Plants are living things.

What kind of They feed, breathe, grow, and make new plants.
How much There was no oxygen in the air.
Which / WKO This is a fossil of one of the first land plants.
Part 4 Adverbs
Identify the adverbs by underlining with orange. Draw a line under the sentence to the word it
modifies. Write the kind of information the adverb answers:
Where, When, How, To What Extent, Why.

How Plants are very important.

TWE Plants do not move from place to place like animals do.

Part 5 Prepositional Phrases

Circle the preposition and put ( ) around the prepositional phrase.
Does it act like an Adjective or adverb?

1. Plants don't move (from place )( to place )( like animals).

2. Many (of these plants) grow (in rainforests).

3. (Before plants), animals did not live (on Earth).

4. Plants grew (on land ).