About Plants Worksheets

4The Life of a Plant

Vocabulary
die join life cycle pollen
insect life near space

Match the vocabulary to their definition

1 pollen the yellow powder in flowers

2 die to stop living

3 join put together

4 space area between two things

5 life of being alive

6 near close to

7 life cycle the stages of growth throughout life

8 insect a very small animal with six legs

Pre-Reading Questions
Discuss the following questions in small groups.
1 What do plants need to grow?

2 How are new plants formed?

4The Life of a Plant Reading Comprehension

1 What is the passage mainly about?
a How bees help plants
b The life cycle of a plant
c The length that seeds can last

2 What is a life cycle?

a When a plant dies
b The start of a new plant
c Life, from start to finish.

3 What does a seed not need to grow?

a Leaves
b Water
c Carbon Dioxide

4 Where is pollen made?

a The seed of a plant.
b The male part of a flower.
c The female part of the flower.

5 What is pollination?
a When a bee takes pollen back to a flower.
b When pollen goes from one flower to the next
c When a seed grows to close to another plant.

Time: _______ Score: ____ / 10

4The Life of a Plant

4The Life of a Plant Follow-Up

Part 1 Use the vocabulary words in the box to best finish the following sentences.
die join life cycle pollen
insect life near space

1. Tiny insects like bees collect pollen from flowers.

2. Plants need space to grow, so some seeds a designed to travel far away from the plant.
3. The life cycle of a plant begins as a seed and ends when the plant dies.

Part 2 Sentence Patterns

Identify the sentence patterns for each sentence, and write the sentence base.

1. Plants grow and make new plants.

2. The flower has male and female parts. and joins two adjectives, both modify parts.

3. (To make new seeds), the pollen (from one flower) must get (to the eggs)(of

another).

4. The pollen and the eggs join together.

5. Sometimes, plants are too close (to each other). The too ～ to expression pattern

6. The oldest seed (to grow (into a plant)) was 1,300 years old!

Pattern Subject Verb OC/

1 SVO Plants grow make plants
2 SVO flower has parts
3 SV pollen must get /
4 SV pollen egg join /
5 SVC plants are close
6 SVC seed was old

Part 3 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.

WKO Whose Plants change at different times of their life.

WKO The plant is bigger and produces leaves.
How Much This gives more space.
How Many Seeds can live for many years.

Part 4 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.

When Then the plant produces flowers.

Where Animals or the wind take some of the fruit away from the plant.

Part 5 Identify Prepositional phrases, Infinities, and Gerunds by putting ( ) around them.

1. (For new seeds), the pollen from one flower has to get (to the eggs)(of another

flower.) has to is part of the verb phrase meaning must. It is not an infinitive.

2. Animals or the wind take some (of the fruit) away (from the plant).

3. The oldest seed (to grow (into a plant)) was 1,300 years old!

4. Plants start producing seeds (within the first year)(of development). gerund object