CLASSIFICATION OF

PLANTS ACCORDING
TO THE HABITAT
 PRE-TEST

Q. What is a habitat?
On vacation, kenz was traveling to two
different locations in his home country.
One was a desert and the other one was
a mountain region. His parents asked him
about the differences that he noticed in
each location.

What all maybe the differences that he

noticed?

Is there any differences in the plants

growing in each location?
LEARNING OBJECTIVE
▪To classify plants according to their habitat

SUCCESS CRITERIA
▪I can classify plants according to their habitat.
▪I can identify the plants growing in different habitat.
▪I can differentiate the plants according to their habitat.
SCIENTIC VOCABULARY

❑ Terrestrial

❑ Aquatic

❑ Xerophytes

❑ Mangroves

❑Marshes
SECTION A
According to the habitat plants can be classified into;

1.TERRESTRIAL OR LAND PLANTS

Plants that grow in Desert ,Mountain ,Hot and

Humid ,Plain and Marshy regions

2.AQUATIC PLANTS
Aquatic plants are plants that have
adapted to living in aquatic environments.It
can be classified into
A. Floating plants
B. Fixed aquatic plants
C. Underwater plants
LO: To classify plants according to their habitat
 Watch the video
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 SECTION B
LET’S ENGAGE IN THE CLASS
(CHOOSE ANY ONE TASK FROM THE INVESTIGATION SHEET)
 TASK-1

                                             TASK  1
Observe the pictures and classify the plants according to their habitat.

          Terrestrial plants           Aquatic plants

                                                             
                                      
 TASK 3
                                                                               

Differentiate terrestrial and Aquatic plants with examples.

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 LET’S READ

LO: To classify plants according to their habitat

 SECTION C
(NOTEBOOK WORK)
 THINK AND ANSWER

⮚What happens to the aquatic plant if we plant it on land?

LO: To classify plants according to their habitat

 Aquatic plants are those that live and thrive in water, they often root in
the benthic medium underneath the water. Others live entirely in the
water with the roots drawing nutrition from the water itself. Others live
with roots submerged in the water and the body of the plant out of the
water in the air.
Terrestrial plants live entirely on land and would drown if submerged in
water for more than a few hours.

There are also plants and trees that live both in and out of water such as some
mangrove species whose roots are submerged for part of their day and
terrestrially for part of the day, usually in response to tidal neaps and flow.

Aquatic plants can not survive on land as terrestrial plant because availability of
water is less on land than aquatic environment and the body design of aquatic
plants are not fit in terrestrial environment and results in their roots unable to
absorb water from the deepest of soil also aquatic plants unable to stand on land

LO: To classify plants according to their habitat

TERRESTRIAL OR LAND PLANTS
PLANTS THAT GROW IN PLANTS THAT GROW IN
DESERT REGIONS MOUNTAIN REGIONS
⮚Hot and dry places with ⮚These regions are
very less water are called normally very cold and
deserts. windy.

⮚Plants that grow in ⮚Pine , fir , deodar and

deserts include cactus, date spruce are plants that
palm , babool and keekar grow in mountain regions

⮚Plants growing in desert is

also known as xerophytes

LO: To classify plants according to their habitat

PLANTS THAT GROW IN DESERT REGIONS

Cactus Babool

Date palm Keekar

PLANTS THAT GROW IN MOUNTAIN REGIONS

Pine Deodar

Fir Spruce
TERRESTRIAL OR LAND PLANTS
PLANTS THAT GROW IN PLANTS THAT GROW IN
HOT AND HUMID REGIONS PLAIN REGIONS
⮚Teak ,rubber, pepper , ⮚These regions are
coffee, tea and sugar normally neither too cold
cane are the plants which nor too hot.
grow in hot and humid ⮚Mango , peepal ,banyan
regions. The area where and sheesham are the
most have summer trees grow there.
season and moderate
cold winter.
PLANTS THAT GROW IN MARSHY REGIONS
⮚Waterlogged places having sticky and clayey soil are
called marshes (swamps).
⮚Mangroves grow in marshy regions.
PLANTS THAT GROW IN HOT AND HUMID REGIONS

Teak Pepper plant

Sugarcane plant

Rubber tree Coffee plant

PLANTS THAT GROW IN PLAIN REGIONS

Mango tree Banyan tree

Peepal tree Sheesham tree

PLANTS THAT GROW IN MARSHY REGIONS

Mangroves
AQUATIC PLANTS

FLOATING PLANTS FIXED AQUATIC PLANTS

⮚Plants like water ⮚Plants like water lily
hyacinth , wolffia , and lotus are fixed to
pistia and duckweed the bed of the pond
float on water.

UNDERWATER PLANTS

⮚Plants like pondweed , seaweed and tape

grass grow and remain under the water

LO: To classify plants according to their habitat

 FLOATING PLANTS

Water hyacinth Pistia

Wolffia Duckweed
 FIXED AQUATIC PLANTS

Water lily Lotus

LO: To classify plants according to their habitat

 UNDERWATER PLANTS

Pondweed Tape grass

Seaweed
 ASSESSMENT

1. _____________ is an underground plant. (lotus / water hyacinth)

2. Water logged places are called _________. (deserts / marshes)

3. Name any two plants that grow in mountain region.