Plant
Observation
Journal
(File: Save the Plants)
Agent Name: ____________________________
Date: _____________________________
Report to Officers: Dunker & Kemp
Duty 1: The Life Cycle of a Plant
Your job is to research and complete the following using the information found on the
websites on the Webquest: Plant Restoration Project. Remember to be neat and complete.
1. Put the stages of a plant’s life cycle in the right order. Put a 1 by the first stage, a 2 by the
second stage, a 3 by the fourth stage, and a 4 by the last stage.
_____ reproduction (making seeds)
_____ germination (growing into a plant)
_____ death
_____ maturity (becoming a full-grown adult)
1.) What is the life cycle of a plant?
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2.) What are the functions of leaves and how do plants depend on them?
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3.) In what ways do fruits help plants survive?
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4. Draw a picture of each stage of the Plants Life Cycle.
Germination
Maturity
Reproduction
Death
Duty 2: How Plants Grow
Your job is to research and complete the following using the information found on the
websites on the Webquest: Plant Restoration Project. Remember to be neat and complete.
1. What 3 things does a seed need to grow?
a. ____________________
b. ____________________
c. ____________________
2-4. Label the parts of the plant.
SEED
LEAF
WORD BANK
FRUIT FLOWER
ROOT
STEM
Image reference :http://urbanext.illinois.edu/gpe/case1/c1m1app.html
5. What are 2 things that a ROOT does for a plant?
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6. What are 2 things that a STEM does for a plant?
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7. What are 2 things that a LEAF does for a plant?
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8. What are 2 things that a FLOWER does for a plant?
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Duty 3: How Plants Survive
Your job is to research and complete the following using the information found on the
websites on the Webquest: Plant Restoration Project. Remember to be neat and complete.
1-2. What 4 things does a plant need to survive?
a. ____________________
c. ____________________
b. ____________________
d. ____________________
3. The process by which plants make their own food is called
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4-5. What 5 things does a plant need to make its own food?
a. ____________________
c. ____________________
b. ____________________
d. ____________________
e. ___________________
6. What is CHOROPHYLL?
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7. What does a plant get from the soil?
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8. What are the most important plant nutrients that they get from the soil?
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9. What PART OF THE PLANT collects the sunlight that is used for photosynthesis?
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Duty 4: How Plants Differ
Your job is to research and complete the following using the information found on the
websites on the Webquest: Plant Restoration Project. Remember to be neat and complete.
1. What is an ADAPTATION?
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2. Name 2 ways that a plant has adapted to live in a DESERT.
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3. Name 2 ways that a plant has adapted to live in the WATER.
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4.) Below, draw a tree and a plant and label their roots, stems, leaves and seeds. Please use
color.
Plant
Tree