What is a Plant?
Why are plants important?
Plants are very important to all life on this planet. Without plants most life on this earth would disappear. They are food for a lot of animals, human beings, and insects, too. They also help to create oxygen for our atmosphere.
Information About Plants
Plants are very important to all life on this planet. Without plants most life on this earth would disappear. They are food for a lot of animals, human beings, and insects, too. They also help to create oxygen for our atmosphere.
There are two basic groups of plants. Those who produce true flowers, flowering plants, and non-flowering plants.
Non-flowering plants can be tiny, like mosses, lichen, and algae. They can also be HUGE, like the giant sequoia. The sequoia is the skyscraper of the plant world, growing to be hundreds of feet tall.
More About Plants
Almost all plants can make their own food through a process called photosynthesis.
This is how it works: Inside the leaves of a plant, there are tiny, little cells that have a green pigment called chlorophyll. That’s why most leaves are green.
Chlorophyll acts like solar panels. It traps sunlight! Then the plant can turn the solar energy into fuel that can be stored in the plant as food. Sometimes that is in the form of starch.
Together with sunshine, water and nutrients from the soil, the plant makes all the food it needs to grow and develop. And, of course, they use this food to reproduce and make more plants too.
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