2nd Class EVS Plant Kingdom The Plant KIngdom

 THE PLANT KINGDOM

CHARACTERISTICS OF PLANTS

• Plants are one of the oldest living organisms on the earth.
• Plants are living organisms which need air, water and sunlight to survive.
• Plants provide food to other living organisms.
• Plants play a very vital role as they provide oxygen for living organisms on earth for their survival.
• Plants gives us many things such as wood, medicines, paper, furniture etc.
• Plants helps in keeping environment fresh and cool.
• Plants are mainly of two types - terrestrial and aquatic.
• Plants which grow on the land are called terrestrial plants, e.g. papaya tree, mango tree, neem tree etc.
• Plants which grow in water are called aquatic plants, e.g. Water lily, lotus, bonsai etc.
• On the basis of structure, plants are divided into mosses plants, grasses, dicots and monocots.
• Dicots and monocots include big plants shrubs or bushes, climber, creepers etc.
• Big plants are tall, voluminous trees e.g. mango tree, banyan tree, oak tree, neem tree etc.
• Herbs are mainly used for flavor and scent and have medicinal value. They are used for cooking purpose, e.g. basil, tulsi leaves, spinach mint, coriander leaves.
• Shrubs or bushes are smaller woody plants and have and short stem. e.g. rose plant, cotton etc.
• Creepers plants grows along the soil surface and has weak stem and spread on a long distance. They can be flowering or non- flowering, e.g. pumpkin, bottle gourd etc.
• Climber plants have very soft and weak stem. They grow only with the help of support.
• They can be both flowering and non-flowering, e.g. beans plant, jasmine plant etc.
• Mainly, a plant has roots, stem, leaves, flower, fruits and seeds, e.g. picture of parts of a plant.

• We get food from different parts of plants. We get cereals, pulses, wheat, fruits and vegetables, spices, sugar, tea, coffee, mustard oil, sunflower oil, coconut oil from plants.
• Different parts of a plant and their function are as follows.