📖 How plants make food · Class 5 and up · 2:25
The Gnome's Green Plot: How plants make food comic video
A comic book about how plants make food. Follow Momo, learn the idea, and answer three questions to beat Queen Quibble.
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0:00 LearnFun Comics. The Gnome's Green Plot. Plants make food with air, water, sunshine. But what if they can't breathe?
0:08 Sunshine City Garden
0:10 Why are the flowers looking so pale today?
0:13 Ha! Roofed the garden; plants can’t photosynthesize now!
0:18 If they can’t make their own food, how will they grow?
0:21 Plants make food with sunlight, water, and air
0:25 Plants use light, water, air. Sunlight gives energy to grow. Water helps plants drink
0:30 Plants make food with sunlight, water, and air. Like magic!
0:35 Plants make food with sunlight, water, and air. No air? No food!
0:39 Plants need sunlight to grow. No sunlight? They fade, stop growing.
0:44 Sunlight = energy to grow. Water = drink for plants. Air = magic helper
0:51 Plants make food like this
0:53 Sun gives plant light. Water quenches plant thirst. Air helps food process
0:58 Plants need sun to make food. They take sunlight, water, and air to grow and make food.
1:03 Your turn, hero! Plants need sun to grow. Why? A: warmth. B: light. C: food. D: energy
1:14 The answer is energy. Sunlight gives plants energy to make their own food.
1:19 And now they turn pale and stop growing. Perfect!
1:22 Plants turn pale without? A: water. B: air. C: soil. D: sun
1:32 The answer is sun. Plants turn pale without sunlight, which they need to make food.
1:37 The final battle Plants make food with air. How? A: drink. B: breathe. C: magic. D: carbon dioxide
1:49 The answer is carbon dioxide. Plants use carbon dioxide from the air to make food through photosynthesis.
1:56 Hmph! Plant more gnomes, but they won't grow!
1:59 I know a way to help them. Let’s get a ladder and take the roof off!
2:03 The garden starts to turn green again. But what about the gnome’s next trick?
2:08 Remember. Plants use sunlight, water, and air Plants make their own food Plants give us fresh air
2:15 Next time, the gnomes try to steal the sunshine. Can Momo stop them?
2:20 Read this comic and answer the questions yourself, at learn fun dot in.
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