Plants

• Terrestrial plants need nutritious soil
• Aquatic plants have special structures that make them live in marine areas
• The parts of a plant are leaves, stems, roots, flowers, and fruit
• Flowers and Fruits

  -Allow plants to reproduce
• Leaves

  -Capture the energy of sunlight
• Stem

  -Sends food and water to all parts of the plant
• Roots

  -Absorb water and nutrients from the soil
• Plants need:

  -Sunlight

  -Water

  -Fertilized soil

  -Carbon dioxide
• Photosynthesis

  -The plants make food by:

  carbon dioxide + water

  =sugar and oxygen
• The three types of roots:

  -Fibrous

  -Taproots

  -Adventitious
• Plant habitat is where plants live
• Hot and Dry Areas is where Plants store water in their stems and leaves to survive the dry season
• Agave has small, fleshy, thick leaves that drop off during extreme dry climate. They're leaves have sharp points that protect them from predators that eat them.
• Dessert shrubs have small leaves, protective thorns, tiny branches, and widespread root system to help adapt in dry areas.
• Coconut tress grow in sandy soil.
• The photosynthesis takes place in the leaves