Green Thumbs: A Kid's Activity Guide to Indoor and Outdoor Gardening

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PLANTING BASICS Plants need soil water sun and air in order to live and grow Minerals in the soil dissolve in water and the plant roots suck them in this is the plant s food The water travels up the plant stem and out to the leaves In the leaves the plant mixes this food with carbon dioxide Carbon dioxide is in the air The plant leaves use the minerals and water from the soil and carbon dioxide from the air to grow A special substance called chlorophyll klor oh fill is in the leaves Chlorophyll and sunlight together make it all happen It's truly amazing what plants can do The best part is that while the plant does all this mixing and growing it gives off oxygen from its green leaves Oxygen is what people and animals breathe and it's very important for them to survive You can see why we depend on plants Plants grow from seeds even towering trees started from seeds Each seed contains the beginning