The Plant Kingdom: Plant Movements

Age
6-9.

Presentation
Chart 11

HOW SEEDS TRAVEL


 * 1) Seeds travel away from the mother plant in many ways.
 * 2) The wind often moves seeds great distances.
 * 3) Animal carriers also contribute to their relocation.
 * 4) Explosion is another way this mother plant releases the seeds or spores great distances.
 * 5) This enables plants to reproduce their species in other locations than the original environment.

Chart 12

HOW PLANTS ARE SUPPORTED


 * 1) Some plants do not have a very strong stem, so they develop tendrils which support them by winding around sticks or poles, or the stems of other plants.
 * 2) Other plants which do not have strong stems crawl along the ground.

Chart 13

ROOTS: ANOTHER MEANS OF SUPPORT


 * 1) This chart shows men holding the plant - anchoring it to the ground, so that when there is a strong wind, the plant is not pulled down.