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(e) stem with low branches.

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5 Match the life processes to the correct definition.

Plants use sunlight, water and nutrients from the soil to

Nutrition
make their own food.

Most plants reproduce by making seeds that grow into

Interaction new plants. Some produce spores.

Plants react to their environment. They grow towards the

Reproduction
light and their roots grow towards water.

6 Circle the correct word in these sentences.

a. Plants give us oxygen / carbon dioxide.

b. Deciduous / Evergreen trees lose their leaves in winter.

c. Plants can / can’t    make their own food.

d.   All / Some plants are born from seeds.

7 Read the descriptions. Do they describedeciduous, evergreen or both trees.

a. They lose their leaves in autumm. deciduous    

b. They produce leaves all year round.

c. Pine trees are this type of tree.

d. Oak trees are this type of tree.

e. They have branches, roots, a trunk and

leaves.

8 Write sentences about things that plants give us.

a. Plants   give us oxygen              .

b. Plants .

c. Plants .

d. Plants .

e. Plants .

f. Plants .

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