My presentation - all about plants

For English homework,we had to prepare a presentation. For mine, I wrote All About Plants. Here's what I wrote:

Flower

A flower is a part of a plant where insects and wind can carry the pollen to germinate. Flowers are beautiful because they need to attract insects. The petals do those work. The pollens which is on the anther, is actually stuck between two balloons. The balloons help to let the pollen fly easily. The pollen flies away and lands on the stigma, there's a tube and the pollen goes in. In the end. it lands on something sticky, and performs a seed. This all happens in the ovary.


leaves and stems

Leaves are the part of a plant where they get the sunlight and do photosynthesis. If you look closely, you can see lines going through- they are the veins. Leaves are green because of the chlorophyll it contains. But in autumn, the green gets duller. Stems are the part of a plant where it passes things like water, minerals and sugar. It can support the leaves, flowers or fruits. Sometimes when a plant is big enough like a tree, you call the stem trunk.


Seeds and fruits


Seed is like an egg for the animals. The seed is kept in the ovary of the mother plant then it flies away. The mother will make sure that the plant goes as far away as possible. The fruit can be used to put the nutrients into the soil. They can be used when an animal came and ate it, and excreted the seed. The fruit is usually nice coloured to attract insects and animals.

More facts

Edible mushrooms are a best known as fungi. Ceps or Porcini mushrooms are wild mushrooms found in woodland. They are famous for being delicious. Some stems are special. They are underground and they have bulbs like onions. They are stems covered in leaves. If sugar made by all the plants in the world was gathered in one place, in three years, the pile would be bigger than mountain Everest. The biggest fungi in the world is in Michigan. It was 150,000 square metres of soil. It is approximately 10,000 kilograms. The biggest difference between plants and animals is that plants have cell walls and animals don't.