The Life Cycle of a Plant

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The Life Cycle of a Plant

• Lisa Zmudzinski 3rd grade Science

Click on the flower to the left and LETS GROW!
OR Choose from one of the topics below of a p
lants life cycle!
Seed
Germination
Stem/Roots
Flowering
Pollination
Glossary
Resources
Quiz
Biography
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What is a plants life cycle?

• Every plant has a life cycle. It is just the time
  period for a plant to go from a seed to a flower
  and then pollinate.
  
• These terms will all be covered in the following
  slides but if you want to know about them before
  hand, you can click to go to the glossary!
  
• Come! Learn and with me!

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As A Seed

• Every plant starts off as a seed. Whether you
  plant it in the ground yourself or it drops onto
  the earth itself it usually has a hard
  covering, called a coat to protect itself and
  is extremely tough.

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Germination

• Germination means that seed is developing into a
  plant with the correct amount of sunlight and
  water. With these necessities, the seed will
  begin to make a new plant.

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Stems and Roots

• As the plant grows, roots will form and push down
  into the earth to anchor the plant into the
  ground.
  
• When the roots steady the plant a stem will grow
  up through the ground towards the light.
  
• The plant will start forming leaves to take in
  more sunlight to
  
• help make more food for
• the plant through
• photosynthesis.

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Flowering

• Many plants will produce flowers so that animals
  or insects will be attracted to it and will help
  with pollination.
  
• Flowers come in many shapes, sizes, and colors.
  Some have fragrances so that attract with a smell.

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Pollination

• Pollination is when an animal, insect or even the
  wind carries the pollen that is produced by the
  flower to another flower so that seeds can be
  produced and the cycle can start all over again!

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Quiz

• Click on the correct plant life cycle sequence

Sequence 1 is correct
Sequence 2 is correct
Sequence 3 is correct
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Glossary

• Flower is the reproductive unit of a plant.
• Germination the beginning of growth of a plant
  from its seed.
  
• Leaves an outgrowth of a plant that grows from
  a bump in the stem. Most leaves are flat and
  their main function is to make food energy
  through photosynthesis. The first leaf to grow
  from a seed is called the cotyledon.
• Photosynthesis the process in which plants
  convert sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide into
  food (sugars and starches), oxygen and water.
  
• Plant a member of the kingdom Plantae, a living
  organism that undergoes photosynthesis.
  
• Pollen the male reproductive cell of flowering
  plants and cone-bearing plants.
  
• Pollination - the transfer of pollen from one
  flower to another.
  
• Root a plant structure that obtains food and
  water from the soil, stores energy, and provides
  support for the plant. Most roots grow
  underground.
• Seed the reproductive unit of some plants.
• Seed Coat the outer, protective layer covering
  the seed.
  
• Stem the axis of a plant it may be above or
  below the ground.
  

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Resources

• All pictures retrieved from http//arboretum.full
  erton.edu/grow/primer/cycle.asp on September
  18th, 2006 unless otherwise noted
  
• All glossary terms retrieved from
  http//www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/plants/g
  lossary/ on September 18th, 2006

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Biography

• Hello! My name is Lisa Zmudzinski and I am an
  indecisive Gemini from Edwardsburg, MI. I am 21
  years old and am going into elementary education
  so that I will never have the same day over and
  over again. I hate sitting behind a desk and
  bananas. People say that I look more like my
  friend Stephanie than I do my sister and their
  probably right. In this picture I was a rad 80s
  girl for a rockin cool party.

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