![]() These seeds will grow into plants of the same species and the plant will use animals, wind or an explosive seed pod to spread them around. When a flower has been pollinated, seeds will develop in the ovaries at the bottom of the flower. Some small birds like the hummingbird or small bats are involved in the pollination process too. Insects aren’t the only type of creatures that plants use to help with pollination. Even animals like lions and tigers that only eat meat rely on plants for their food because the animals that the lions and tigers eat get their food from plants. If you plant sunflowers in different places in the garden – some in shady corners, some in sunny spots – you can see which ones grow the fastest by measuring them every day.Īnimals eat plants to get the food that they need to grow because only plants can convert energy from the Sun into food. Sunflowers grow into tall flowers very quickly. Some flowers are shaped so that only certain kinds of insects or birds are able to get into the flower to collect the nectar. Plants often go to a lot of trouble to attract animals that will help them pollinate their flowers or spread their seeds. A hummingbird drinking nectar from a flower.A man sitting at the base of a giant redwood tree (this is the third largest redwood tree in the world) (Credit: Mdvaden via Wikimedia).People who grow plants for people to eat are called farmers.Ĭan you spot all these images in the gallery? They have to be carefully grown and looked after. The huge variety of fruit and vegetables that you find in the supermarket doesn’t just turn up there by chance.Lots of types of animal only eat plants.This makes the seed think it’s in some moist soil, and it will start to grow after a few days. You can see germination in action by taking some seeds and putting them on a damp piece of kitchen towel in a dark cupboard. When a seed sprouts and starts to grow, it is called ‘germination’.A seed contains the start of a new plant and some food to help it grow until it’s big enough to get food on its own. These seeds will make the next generation of plants. When a plant has been pollinated, it creates a seed (or lots of seeds).The insects come to the flowers to drink nectar, and they carry pollen from one plant to the next. The bright colours and patterns on the flower petals are very attractive to insects. Brightly coloured flowers look very pretty to us, but that’s not why plants grow them.If you put one plant on a windowsill in the sunlight, and one plant in a dark cupboard, the plant in the sunlight will be green and healthy and the plant in the cupboard will start to die. All the pollen in the air in the spring makes them sneeze. The Venus flytrap and pitcher plants trap and eat insects! Not all plants get all their energy from sunlight.Some plants spread their seeds by letting them float on the wind, other plants encourage animals to eat them and some plants just drop them on the ground.Flowers contain a sugary liquid called ‘nectar’ that the insects eat and while they are in the flower, they get pollen on them that they carry to the next flower they go to. ![]() Plants use flowers to attract insects to carry pollen from one plant to the next.Most plants reproduce by creating seeds using pollen from other plants of the same type.Some of these trees are as tall as a 15-storey building, and up to 3,500 years old. The biggest type of plant on earth is a tree called the giant redwood.Animals can’t turn energy from the sun into food so they have to get it by eating plants or by eating other animals. Animals can eat plants so that they can use the food the plants created to grow too.Plants also need water and nutrients from the soil, and carbon dioxide from the air.Plants turn light from the Sun into food that they need to grow.To help them do this, they also need water and nutrients that they take from the soil with their roots, and carbon dioxide that they absorb from the air. Plants use a process called photosynthesis to turn sunlight into food in their leaves. Plants can be big or small, from giant trees to tiny patches of moss. Plants are living things that grow from the soil and turn light from the Sun into food. ![]()
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