Harcourt Science, 3rd grade (2000) - Unit A, Chapter 1
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- How does a plant take in water from the soil?
- Roots take in water and minerals from the soil?
- True or false: All plants need the same amount of water.
- FALSE. A cactus needs very little water. Other plants, like water lillies, need a lot of water.
- True or false: Plants live all over the world.
- TRUE
- Do plants grow in the desert?
- YES
- Does every plant have all four parts (roots, stem, leaves, flowers)?
- YES
- True or false: Most plants have many leaves.
- TRUE
- What two things do leaves take in for the plant?
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1. Air
2. Light - True or false: Leaves come in many shapes and sizes.
- TRUE
- Name some of the ways leaf shapes are different.
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1. Wide or narrow.
2. Flat or thick.
3. Small or large.
4. Smooth or rough edges. - What plant part carries water to the other parts of the plant?
- Stem
- What is the South Carolina state tree?
- Sabal Palmetto (or Cabbage Palmetto).
- What does the Carolina Jessamine (Yellow Jessamine) look like?
- A climbing plant which grows upon trees and fences and bears a many yellow, funnel-shaped flowers an inch in diameter.
- What is the South Carolina state flower?
- Carolina Jessamine (or Yellow Jessamine)
- What does the Sabal Palmetto (Cabbage Palmetto) look like?
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Leaf: Alternate, palmately compound, fan shaped; leaflets very long (4 to 6 feet) and lance shaped, leaf stalks are long, extend through the leaf, and are without sharp edges; green in color, overall leaf nearly round and several feet long.
Flower: Small white flowers occurring on large (several feet), branched clusters, appearing in early summer.
Fruit: Fleshy drupe, nearly round, 1/3 to 1/2 inch across, dark shiny blue, maturing in early fall and persistent into the winter.
Twig: Absent, since leaves appear directly out of unbranched trunk.
Bark: Gray brown, tough, splits vertically.
Form: Tall (to 80 feet), straight trunk with a short rounded crown. - True or false: Leaves are plant parts that grow out of the roots.
- FALSE. Leaves grow out of the stem.
- What plant part holds the plant in the ground?
- Roots
- What plant part supports the leaves and branches of a tree?
- The stem (or trunk).
- Name four things a plant needs to live.
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1. Sun
2. Air
3. Rain
4. Soil