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In science we are doing a project about the 5 kingdoms. This page is about the Plant Kingdom. It was created by 5th grade students ([|Kate] and [|Carissa.]The most scientific name for the Plant Kingdom is Plantae. The Plantae kingdom has more than 350,000 known species. Although people say that this is not the largest Kingdom, some might argue that it is the most important one. We hope you enjoy reading this as much as we have done making it.

__**The Plant Kingdom**__ The Plant Kingdom was developed in ancient Greece by the philosopher and scientist Arisotle. The Plant Kingdom includes ferns, mosses, liverworts, trees, grasses, flowering herbs,vines, bushes and green algea.Plants do not have muscle, nerve, skin or blood tissues.

__**Cell Structur**____**e**__ This is a image of the plant cell. The main organisim is the nucleus, it controls what happens in the cell. The plant cell is the only cell that has a cell wall because it needs to be held up straight. The vauole is very important to the plant cell. It stores all the water in the plant to make it grow. The mitochondria is also very important, it uses the sunlight to make energy for the plant cell. As you can see above there are many more, but we are only stating the important ones.

__**How do plants get energy ?**__ The mitochondria is the organism that gives the plant energy. There is one main way plants get energy. They use energy from sunlight, water, soil compounds and carbon dioxide to make food through photosynthesis.

__**How plants reproduce ?**__ There are three ways plants reproduce. The first way is that most plants put stikers on there seeds so it sticks to animals and humans. The second way is some plants are very light so the wind carries them a long way. The last way is that when plants or fruit trees grow there fruit the birds and humans eat it.The seeds do not digest properly, so thay come out sometime later.

Photosynthesis is producing oxengen to make food. Photosynthesis is made up of two words, photo which means light and synthesis which means putting together. This takes place in the chroloplasts.
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__**How do Plants interact with animals and the enviroment ?**__ First,how do plants interact with the enviroments. Plants breath in cardon dioxide and let out oxegen. Us humans breath in oxegen and let out carbon dioxide. So plants help us live ansd we help plants live Second, how do plants interact with animals. Animals like caterpillers ans butterflys eat the plants. But animals help the plant reproduce by carring it's seed a long way so it grows somewere else.

__**Special Characterstics**__ Have you ever wondered how plants live in the desert whith out any water? media type="youtube" key="eHnQDMeOrBM" height="234" width="384"

__**The venus fly trap**__ The venus fly trap is a special charactreistic of plants because of it's amazing ability to catch it's pray. As soon as an insect comes close enough to disturb the hairs inside the leaves, the water inside the leave moves, making the leaf curve inward and close. The harder the insect trys to escape the tighter the leaves will close around it. It will take nearly a week for the plant to finish its meal and when it ha sit will open up its leave again to trap another insect.

__**Pictures of organisms in the plant kingdom**__









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