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Plant Nutrition

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Plant Nutrition

Plants need all the same food groups, vitamins, and minerals as us, but they don't have mouths to eat with.

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How do plants get food?

  • Plants need to get their nutrients by other means.
    • They get their minerals from the soil, when they are absorbed through their roots.
    • They get their water in the same way, absorbing it from the soil using their roots.
    • They get the other nutrients (e.g. carbohydrates) from photosynthesis.
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Photosynthesis

  • Photosynthesis produces glucose (a sugar) from:
    • Carbon dioxide (absorbed from the air through their leaves).
    • Water (absorbed from the soil through their roots).
    • The energy in sunlight (absorbed by the chloroplasts in their leaf cells).

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1Biology

1.1Cells, Tissues & Organs

1.2Reproduction & Variation

1.3Ecological Relationships & Classification

1.4Digestion & Nutrition

1.5Plants & Photosynthesis

1.6Biological Systems & Processes

2Chemistry

2.1Particles

2.2Chemical Reactions

2.3Atoms, Elements, Compounds

2.4The Periodic Table

2.5Materials & the Earth

2.6Reactivity

2.7Energetics

2.8Properties of Materials

3Physics

3.1Energy

3.2Forces & Motion

3.3Waves

3.4Electricity & Magnetism

3.5Matter

3.6Space Physics

4Thinking Scientifically

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