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About Plants Worksheets

1 Plants in Our World


Vocabulary

billion grow oxygen rainforest


breathe living possible scientist
feed million produce type
Match the vocabulary to their definition

1 to give food to
2 having life; being alive
3 a gas that is in air and water; people, plants, and animals need
it to live
4 a very large number; 1,000,000,000
5 to grow or make something
6 an expert in science
7 to take in and let out air through your nose and mouth
8 a large number; 1,000,000
9 a hot, rainy place with many trees
10 to get bigger
11 that can exist or happen
12 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?

1 Plants in Our World Reading Comprehension


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

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.

4 Where did the first plants grow?


a In water
b On land
c Two billion years ago

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.

Time: _______ Score: ____ / 10

1 Plants in Our World Follow-Up


Part 1 Use the vocabulary words in the box to best finish the following sentences.
billion grow oxygen rainforest
breathe living possible scientist
feed million produce type

1. Plants make life possible for us because they produce _____________ that lets us

________________

2. Many _________________ research how plants _____________ different kinds of

fruits and vegetables.

3. With the global population reaching several ________________, if we want to be able

to _____________ everyone, we need to _____________ more grains and eat less

meat.

4. The _______________ 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.

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 more than two billion years ago!
6. Plants produced oxygen and food for animals.

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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.

Plants are living things.

They feed, breathe, grow, and make new plants.

There was no oxygen in the air.

This is a fossil of one of the first land plants.

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.

Plants are very important.

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

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

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

2. Plants keep growing larger and larger.

3. Many of these plants grow in rainforests.

4. It took hundreds of millions of years for plants to change and to grow on land.

5. Before plants, animals did not live on Earth.

6. Animals need to breathe oxygen.

7. Plants started to grow on land.

About Plants Worksheets


2 Different Plants
Vocabulary
centimeter fern kilogram seed
cone flower moss spore
conifer group non-seed weigh
Match the vocabulary to their definition

1 a unit of measuring weight


2 a plant that does not produce seeds of flowers.
3 a plant that produced seeds in cones
4 without producing seeds
5 a unit of measuring length
6 massed cells able to reproduce new plants
7 a hard case that protects seeds
8 things gathered together
9 a small, green plant that has no flowers
10 what a plant grows from
11 the blossom of a plant
12 to see how heavy it is

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

2 What are some different kinds of plants?

2 Different Plants Reading Comprehension


1 What is the passage mainly about?
a How plants grow
b How plants make new plants
c What spores are

2 Which of the following is true?


a All seed plant produce flowers.
b Scientists group plants into two groups
c The most common plant you see are flowering plants.

3 A conifer is…
a a flowering plant.
b A 4 kilogram cone.
c a cone producing plant.

4 Ferns make new plants.


a with spores
b with mosses
c with seeds

5 What are some of the tallest trees in the world?


a Flowering trees
b Conifers
c Non-Seed plants

Time: _______ Score: ____ / 10

2 Different Plants Follow-Up


Part 1 Use the vocabulary words in the box to best finish the following sentences.

centimeter fern kilogram seed


cone flower moss spore
conifer group non-seed weigh

1. Some the heaviest pine cones can ____________ more than four _________________.

2. There are two main ______________ of seed plants, flowering plants and conifers.

3. On the back of a _____________ leaf, you can find many tiny ____________.

4. Many kids like throwing _______________ that fell from trees. They are heavy enough to

throw far.

Part 2 Sentence Patterns


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

1. Scientists put plants into different groups.

2. New plants grow from the seeds.

3. Most of the plants around you are flowering plants.

4. The biggest cones can be 40 centimeters long.

5. Ferns and mosses are non-seed plants.

6. Non-seed plants don't make seeds

Pattern Subject Verb OC/


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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.

There are many different types of plant.


Some seed plants produce cones

Some of the world's tallest trees are conifers.

New plants grow from these spores.

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.

How many flowering plants do you know?

They do not make seeds.

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

1. New plants grow from the seeds.

2. Some seed plants developed to produce cones to protect their seeds.

3. Flowering plants produce all the fruit for us to eat.

4. New mosses start growing from spores.

About Plants Worksheets


3 Plant Parts
Vocabulary

fruit mineral soil vegetable


leaf part stem
main root support
Match the vocabulary to their definition

1 the biggest or most important


2 the ground that plants grow in
3 to hold up
4 food made from the flower of a plant
5 belonging to a bigger whole
6 the part of a plant that holds it in the soil
7 the part of a plant that supports it above ground
8 a non-living substance such as rocks or crystals
9 (plural leaves) the flat, green part of a plant
10 part of a plant that people can eat

Pre-Reading Questions
Discuss the following questions in small groups.
1 What are different parts of plants?

2 Which parts can you eat?

3 Plant Parts Reading Comprehension


1 What is the passage mainly about?
a Food that is the root of a plant
b Why soil is important
c Each part of the plant and its responsibilities.
2 What do the roots of a plant do?
a They take minerals from the soil.
b They make the food for the plant.
c They take water to the leaves.

3 Where are seeds made?


a In the stems
b In the flower
c In the roots

4 Which is true?
a Potatoes are part of the roots of the plant.
b Asparagus is a flower.
c All vegetables are from the same part of the plant.

5 Where do fruits grow from?


a From the stems
b From the soil
c From a flower

Time: _______ Score: ____ / 10

3 Plant Parts Follow-Up


Part 1 Use the vocabulary words in the box to best finish the following sentences.

fruit mineral soil vegetable


leaf part stem
main root support

1. Young children love to eat ______________ because they are sweet, but few kids realize
that a cucumber is technically one too.
2. I saw a ladybug climbing up the long tall ____________ of my tomato plant.
3. Fresh green ________________ are very good for you because they contain healthy
vitamins and _______________.
4. The only way to get rid of weeds is to pull their _____________ out of the soil.
5. In the fall, the ______________ of the maple trees will turn a brilliant crimson color.
Part 2 Sentence Patterns
Identify the sentence patterns for each sentence, and write the sentence base.

7. Roots take water and minerals from the soil.

8. New plants grow from these seeds.

9. Different vegetables come from different parts of a plant.

10. Potatoes are from the roots of a plant.

11. Broccoli is the flower of the plant.

12. The seeds from the coco de mer plant can weigh 30 kilograms

Pattern Subject Verb OC/


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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.

A flowering plant has four main parts.

The biggest seeds are from the coco de mer plant.


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.

Vegetables can grow much bigger in good soil.

Avocados have so many minerals that they are called superfoods.

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

1. Food like apples and oranges are fruits.

2. The stems take water from the roots to the leaves.

3. Potatoes are from the roots of a plant.

4. The leaves make food for the plant.

5. That is the same as a ten years old child!

About Plants Worksheets


4The Life of a Plant
Vocabulary

die join male pollination


female life near space
insect life cycle pollen warmth
Match the vocabulary to their definition
1 a very small animal with six legs
2 the yellow powder in flowers
3 to stop living
4 of being alive
5 area between two things
6 a woman or girl; an animal that can lay eggs or have babies
7 a man or boy; an animal that cannot usually have babies
8 the feeling of being heated
9 The stages of growth throughout life
10 the transfer of pollen from one flower to another
11 close to
12 put together

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 Follow-Up


Part 1 Use the vocabulary words in the box to best finish the following sentences.

die join male pollination


female life near space
insect life cycle pollen warmth

1. The ____________ of flowers couldn’t happen without the help of tiny ____________
like bees.
2. Plants need ____________ to grow, so some seeds a designed to travel far away from
the plant.
3. A flower has two parts; a __________ part that produces eggs, and a __________ part
that produces the ______________.
4. The _____________ of a plant begins as a seed and ends when the plant
__________.

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.

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

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

Pattern Subject Verb OC/


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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.

Plants change at different times of their life.

The plant is bigger and produces leaves.

This gives more space.

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.

Then the plant produces flowers.

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. A new seed needs water, oxygen, and warmth to start to grow into a plant.

2. To make new seeds, the pollen from one flower has to get to the eggs of

another flower.

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

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

5. Plants start producing seeds within the first year of development.

About Plants Worksheets


5 How Plants Feed
Vocabulary

carbon dioxide glucose special


chlorophyll lose store
evergreen photosynthesis sunlight
Match the vocabulary to their definition

1 the green coloring in leaves


2 something that is meaningful
3 a plant with leave throughout the year
4 to be without
5 to keep something to use later
6 a gas in the air
7 light from the sun
8 the process plant use to create food
9 a kind of natural sugar

Pre-Reading Questions
Discuss the following questions in small groups.
1 How do plants make food for themselves?

2 What are some parts of that precess?

5 How Plants Feed Reading Comprehension


1 What is the passage mainly about?
a When trees lose their leaves
b How chlorophyll makes leaves green
c How leaves make food for plants

2 What is the energy used for photosynthesis?


a Carbon dioxide
b Sunlight
c Water

3 What is not produced in photosynthesis?


a Soil
b Oxygen
c Glucose

4 Why is chlorophyll important to photosynthesis?


a It makes the leaves green.
b It is in the leaves.
c It collects sunlight.

5 Why do leaves change colors? Because…


a there is less sunlight.
b there is less chlorophyll in the leaves
c they are storing food to use later.

Time: _______ Score: ____ / 10

5 How Plants Feed Follow-Up


Part 1 Use the vocabulary words in the box to best finish the following sentences.

carbon dioxide glucose special water


chlorophyll lose store oxygen
evergreen photosynthesis sunlight

1. Plants feed on ________________, which is a form of sugar. This is why there is a


sweetness to lots if vegetables.
2. The process of ______________ involves lots of things. ___________ from the soil and
______________ from the air converted into food for the plants. All of this is powered by
______________.
3. Christmas trees are a kind of _______________ tree that remain full of color even in winter.
4. Trees will ____________ their leaves after the _____________ inside the leaves breaks
down, which changes the color of the leaves.
Part 2 Sentence Patterns
Identify the sentence patterns for each sentence, and write the sentence base.

1. Plants use sunlight to make food from carbon dioxide and water.

2. During photosynthesis, plants also produce oxygen.


3. Photosynthesis happens in leaves.

4. Chlorophyll is the green part of leaves.

5. In fall, they start to use their stored food.

6. No leaves are on most trees by winter.

Pattern Subject Verb OC/


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Part 3 Look at the word or phrase in ( ) Write the kind of information it answers: What kind of,
which, how many, how much, whose.

Plants can make ( their ) own food!

They can store some ( of the food ).

By winter, there are no leaves on ( most ) trees.

Part 4 Look at the word or phrase in ( ) Write the kind of information it answers: Where,
When, How, To What Extent, Why.
Plants need food ( to grow ).

Plants use sunlight ( to make food from carbon dioxide and

water).

Photosynthesis happens ( in leaves ).

( In fall, ) they start to use the food that they stored.

Part 5 Identify Prepositional phrases, Infinities, and Gerunds by putting ( ) around them.
Underline them if they are subjects, and wavy underline them if they are objects.

5. Plants don't need to find food like people or animals do.

6. Plants get carbon dioxide from the air, and water from the soil.

7. During photosynthesis, plants also produce oxygen.


8. In summer, plants make lots of food.

9. In fall, they start to use the food that they stored.

10. The leaves change to yellow, orange, or red.

About Plants Worksheets


6 Plant Habitats
Vocabulary

cactus habitat shelter way


desert quickly underwater wet
dry shade wave
Match the vocabulary to their definition

1 not wet
2 the environment something lives in
3 a line of water that moves across the top of the ocean
4 at great speed: fast
5 a place something can be protected
6 not being dry
7 a kind of plant in deserts with spikes
8 an area where the sunlight is blocked
9 the manner of doing something
10 below the surface of water
11 An area that is very dry all year long

Pre-Reading Questions
Discuss the following questions in small groups.
1 Where do you see lots of plant life?

2 Where would you see little plant life?

6 Plant Habitats Reading Comprehension


1 What is the passage mainly about?
a Where plants grow
b Special kinds of flowers
c Plants in the desert

2 Where can most plants grow?


a In very dry places.
b In warm places.
c In places without much sunlight.

3 How can a cactus get water in the desert?


a By storing water in its stem
b When it rains.
c By having roots near the top of the ground.

4 Which is true about the artic buttercup?


a It’s a large plant
b It doesn’t grow in very cold places.
c Its flowers grow close to each other.

5 How are the flowers of sea grass pollinated?


a By fish
b By waves
c By blooming underwater

Time: _______ Score: ____ / 10

2 Different Plants Follow-Up


Part 1 Use the vocabulary words in the box to best finish the following sentences.

cactus habitat shelter way


desert quickly underwater wet
dry shade wave

5. Some plants grow well in sunlight, but others thrive in the ____________ where it is cooler.

6. Plants not only provide food for animals, but also _____________. Birds live in holes in

trees, insects live under roots, and mice hide from predators in tall grass.

7. Tropical flowers cannot survive in colder places because it is outside of their natural

______________. So, many gardeners use greenhouses to raise them.


8. In the _____________, you will find many kinds of spiny ____________. They survive well

in this hot and ___________ climate.

Part 2 Sentence Patterns


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

13. Most plants can't grow in very dry, cold, or wet places.
14. Some plants have special ways of growing in these places.
15. The roots of the cactus are near the top of the ground.
16. This helps the flowers to live in the wind and the cold.
17. Sea grass is the only underwater flowering plant.
18. Fish use sea grass for food and shelter.

Pattern Subject Verb OC/


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Part 3 Look at the word or phrase underlined. Write the kind of information it answers: What
kind of, which, how many, how much, whose.

Some plants need sun, and other plants need shade.

Some plants have special ways of growing in these places.

The cactus can grow in hot, dry places like deserts.

It stores water in its stem.

Part 4 Look at the word or phrase underlined. Write the kind of information it answers: Where,
When, How, To What Extent, Why.

Most plants can't grow in very dry, cold, or wet places.


Cactuses can take in water quickly when it rains.

This helps the flowers ( to live in the wind and the cold.)

Sea grass is the only plant that can produce flowers underwater

Part 5 Identify Prepositional phrases, Infinities, and Gerunds by putting ( ) around them.
Underline them if they are subjects, and wavy underline them if they are objects.

1. Some plants have special ways of growing in these places.

2. The cactus can grow in hot, dry places like deserts.

3. The flowers grow near each other and near to the ground.

4. This helps the flowers to live in the wind and the cold.

5. Fish use sea grass for food and shelter.

About Plants Worksheets


7 Plants and Animals
Vocabulary

around fly not - at all smell


butterfly inside pattern sweet
center nectar pollinate than
Match the vocabulary to their definition

1 within; indoors
2 putting pollen to another flower
3 in a circle; surrounding something
4 an insect that usually buzzes around fruit
5 completely not
6 a flying insect usually with colorful wings
7 the scent of odor of something
8 comparing two things
9 a sweet liquid produced by flowers
10 natural markings or design
11 the middle of
12 having a taste like sugar

Pre-Reading Questions
Discuss the following questions in small groups.
1 How do animals rely on plants?

2 How do plants rely on animals?

7 Plants and Animals Reading Comprehension


1 What is the passage mainly about?
a Animals living in plants
b How bees find the center of a flower
c How plants and animals cooperate

2 How do plants need animals


a For their homes
b For pollination
c For oxygen

3 How do animals spread seeds?


a By feeding on nectar
b By eating plants
c By eating fruit

4 Which animal likes red?


a Birds
b Bees
c Flies

5 Flies help to pollinate flowers that…


a smell like meat.
b smell sweet.
c have no smell.

Time: _______ Score: ____ / 10

About Plants Worksheets


8 Plants and people
Vocabulary

biodiesel gasoline mud rubber


cover healthy oil wood
ethanol medicine plastic
Match the vocabulary to their definition

1 something that you take when you are sick, to make you better
2 a flexible material
3 a liquid from plants or animals that we use for cooking or to
make gasoline
4 a ridged material used in many modern items
5 (or petrol) a liquid that burns and powers an engine
6 a material from trees
7 wet soil
8 to put something over something; to be over something
9 a form of alcohol
10 not ill; good for you
11 a fuel made from living material

Pre-Reading Questions
Discuss the following questions in small groups.
1 What are some materials that come from plants?

2 Do you have anything on you that comes from plants?

8 Reading Comprehension
1 What is the passage mainly about?
a Thing we use made from plants
b How oil is made
c How plants make us happy.

2 Which material makes erasers?


a Medicine
b Rubber
c Wood

3 How was oil made?


a 300 to 400 million years ago.
b From plants and small animals.
c By mud and rock covering living things for a long time.

4 Which of the following came from plants from long ago?


a Ethanol
b Oil
c Biodiesel

5 Which of the following is false?


a Plant plastic is usually in cell phones.
b Plastics are only made from oil.
c Many people enjoy gardening.

Time: _______ Score: ____ / 10

About Plants Worksheets


9
Vocabulary

amazing more than tallest


interesting smallest terrible
millimeter smelliest trap
Match the vocabulary to their definition

1 the one that is most small


2 scary; very bad
3 the one that is the most smelly
4 a very small unit of measuring length
5 wonderful; highly skilled
6 to keep something in a place where it can't escape
7 the one that is most in height
8 A greater number or amount of
9 creating great curiosity

Pre-Reading Questions
Discuss the following questions in small groups.
1 What are some unique plants that you know? How are they special?

About Plants Worksheets


10 Saving our Planet
Vocabulary

build chemicals danger pollution


carefully crops forever recycle
charity cut down important wildlife
Match the vocabulary to their definition

1 to create a structure
2 something that makes air, land, or water dirty
3 when something could hurt or kill people or animals
4 to use again; to make something new
5 a plant that a farmer grows
6 to separate and bring down
7 of great need or desire
8 done with great caution
9 a group of people who collect money to help people or animals
10 a solid or liquid that is made by chemistry
11 without end
12 animals living freely

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