Needs of plants and animals

Life Sciences
Standards
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Standard Set 2. Life Sciences
2. Plants and animals meet their
needs in different ways. As a basis for
understanding this concept:

2.e. Students know roots are
associated with the intake of water
and soil nutrients and green leaves
are associated with making food from
sunlight.

2.b. Students know both plants and
animals need water, animals need
food, and plants need light.

by Nancy Day

Genre

Nonfiction

Comprehension Skill

Relate Prior
Knowledge

Text Features

• Call Outs
• Glossary

Science Content

Living Things

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Vocabulary
leaves
living
nutrients
roots

by Nancy Day

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What do plants
need?

Plants can grow.
Plants can change.
Living things have needs.

Living things are alive.
Plants are living things.

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What Plants Need
Plants need air.
Plants need water.

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Plants need light.
Plants get light from the Sun.
Light lets plants grow
and change.

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How do plants get
what they need?
Plants have parts.
The parts help a plant live.
The parts help a plant grow.

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Most plants have roots.
Roots hold plants in the ground.
Roots take in water.
Roots take in nutrients.
Nutrients are materials that
living things need.

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Plants Make Food
Leaves of green plants make
food.
Water and nutrients enter

the roots.
Water and nutrients go up
the stem.
They go to the leaves.

Green leaves take in air and
energy from sunlight.
Green leaves use energy from
air, water, and sunlight to make
food.

leaves

roots

stem

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What do
animals need?

Animals need air.
Animals need water.
Animals need food.

Animals are living things.

Animals grow and change.
Animals have needs.

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Glossary

What did you learn?
1. Name two groups of living things.

leaves

the parts of a plant that make
food for the plant

2. What are three needs of animals?

living

things that are alive, grow,
and change

3.

Write two sentences
telling how you would take care of a
plant.

nutrients

materials that living things need

4.

roots

the part of a plant that holds
the plant in the ground and
takes in water and nutrients
from the soil

Relate Prior Knowledge What are
some plants that you know?

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