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1. • Why doesn’t this tree fall?
• How does it get its water and food (nutrients)?
• Where do you think it makes its own food?

2. Soil
• Is soil a part of the plant?? NO!
• Soil contains the nutrients and water that the
plants take.

3. Remember:
Plants make
their own food
Roots
• Roots are found under the SOIL.
“We can not see the roots”
• Roots get water and nutrients from
the SOIL.
• Roots hold the plant in the ground.
• Roots are fixed in the SOIL.

4. We eat the ROOTS of:
Carrots Potatoes
Beetroot