5.1 How Plants Get Food Lesson

​mosses

​liverworts

​hornworts

​ferns

​Vascular plants -flowering plants

How plants make food

Plants need WATER and CARBON DIOXIDE to make food.

Plants PRODUCE glucose (sugar) and oxygen

• Plants use carbon dioxide, water, and sunlight to make food inside of their leaves.

• Leaves are mde up of many tiny cells. Inside of each cell you can find chloroplast. Chloroplast is what makes leaves green!

The green substance in plants that uses light to manufacture food from carbon dioxide and water.

Tiny pores in the bottom of leaves.

The tiny holes open and allow CO2 to enter the plant.

Co2 enters the plant through the leaves. Leaves have microscopic holes in them called Stoma (stomata)

carbon dioxide is in the air. Humans and animals exhale CO2 during respiration (when they breath)

tiny tube like structures called Xylem carry the water to the leaves so photosynthesis can occur

tube like structures that carry water up from the roots to the leaves

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