UNIT 2
Lessons 9~16 Plant a Plant!
Lesson 9:
Plant Parts
How many parts do plants have?
A plant has four main parts:Flowers,leaves and stems grow above

ground.
Roots grow below ground.What do roots do?
Roots bring water from the ground to the plant.
What is the stem for?
The stem carries the water from the roots to the leaves and

flowers.
The stem holds the leaves and flowers in the sunlight.
What are leaves forLeaves make food for the plant.
Why do plants have flowers?
Is it because flowers are beautful?
No!Plants have flowers because the flowers make seeds.
New plants grow from seeds.
What parts do we eatPeople eat all parts of plants.A carrot is

a root.
Sugar is made from the stem of the sugarcane plant.
We eat the leaves of cabbage.We eat the flowers of gai lan.
The seeds of the rice plant feed billions of people.
What's a billionIt's 1,000,000,000!
FASCINATING FACT
palm leaves
The bamboo palm tree in South America has the biggest leaves in

the world.
One leaf can grow twenty metres long!
Yikes!Twenty metres!
That's ten of me!