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Sunflower Seeds Germination and Growth Time Lapse

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[Full] Pumpkin growth time-lapse: from the seed to the mature fruit in 108 days and nights

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Get pictures and fun facts about eight carnivorous plants.

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Let's pretend you are a plant. You are a tree that grows really delicious, juicy cherries. Then, a bird comes along to pick and eat your cherries. Do you want the bird to eat your fruit?

The answer is, yes. As you read about how plants grow below, try and figure out why. Why do some plants want animals to eat their fruit? You may have noticed that fruits have seeds inside them. These seeds are the beginning of a new plant. Many plants begin as seeds. Even a tall tree grows from a tiny seed.

A Plant's Life Cycle

Just like many things in life grows and changes , plants have a life cycle. The plant from a seed into an adult plant. The adult plant then grows seeds to form new plants. A plant grows tall through water nutrients sunlight, , and . The plant gets water and nutrients through its roots. The plant absorbs sunlight through its leaves.

Germination

Some seeds have an outer layer that protects and feeds the seed. For the plant to grow, the conditions need to be right. The seed needs to be healthy and have oxygen for respiration living space . It must also settle in an environment with a good amount of . Lastly , the seed needs to find a place with the right temperature and enough water and nutrients. These things allow the growing plant to maintain homeostasis.

Once it has these things, the seed can then open up and start to grow through the outer layer of the seed. This process of plant growth from the seed is called germination. The plant then must find water, nutrients, and sunlight to grow even larger.

Therefore , part of the seed, the root, pushes down into the ground. Then another part, the shoot, reaches up toward the sky. The root can find nutrients and water and the shoot can find sunlight.

Seedling

Eventually , you can start seeing the plant; the plant is no longer buried in the soilis called . At this point, the plant a seedling. Now that the plant has access to the sun, the plant can start to grow even bigger through photosynthesis.

Maturation

The plant adds more leaves and gets stronger roots. It continues to grow bigger until it becomes an adult plant.

Reproduction

Where did the original seed come from though?

After the plant matures, the plant can start making seeds through plant reproduction . Because plants cannot move, plants need a way to distribute their seeds.

Have you figured out why some plants want animals to eat their fruit? It explains why fruit is so delicious! When animals eat the fruit, they help scatter the plant's seeds when it excretes the seed somewhere else!

The seeds can then grow to become an adult plant. The cycle continues.

Death

Dying is a part of life. When the plant reaches the end of their life, they start to decay. They eventually return back to the ground .

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How Do Plants Grow? - Plants / Basic Biology - Kids Biology

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Plants grow and go through a life cycle, just like everything else. They germinate from a seed, turn into a seedling, a mature plant, and then die.

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Duckweed - Mississippi National River and Recreation Area (U.S. National Park Service)

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The duckweeds as a group are common throughout the Mississippi National River and Recreation Area. These tiny plants have the reputation of being, if not the smallest flowering plants in the world, certainly one of the smallest. Unfortunately, they rarely bloom so their tiny white flowers are rarely seen.

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DK Find Out! | Fun Facts for Kids on Animals, Earth, History and more!

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Visit DK Find Out! to learn about dinosaurs, space, animals, nature & more. Fun learning activities for kids with videos, quizzes & galleries at DKFindOut.com

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DK Find Out! | Fun Facts for Kids on Animals, Earth, History and more!

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Visit DK Find Out! to learn about dinosaurs, space, animals, nature & more. Fun learning activities for kids with videos, quizzes & galleries at DKFindOut.com

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Kids learn about the science of photosynthesis. How plants gather energy from the sun by turning sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide into glucose and oxygen using chlorophyll.

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Time lapse radish seeds sprouting, top and roots growing