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    Cross-Curricular Reading Comprehension Worksheets: E8-of 36

    Plants Are Producers Name: ______________________________________


    Cross-Curricular Focus: History/Life Science
    Answer the following questions based on
    the reading passage. Don’t forget to go back
    People are consumers. We have to spend large parts of our days to the passage whenever necessary to find or
    finding, buying, cooking and eating our food. Did you ever think it might confirm your answers.
    be nice to be able to make your own food like plants do? Plants are
    producers and perform a process called photosynthesis using light 1) Why are plants called producers?
    from the sun, water and carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide is the gas we
    exhale when we breathe. The end result of this chemical reaction is _______________________________________
    sugar for the plant to “eat.” The plant releases water and oxygen, a gas _______________________________________
    all animals need to breathe, into the air.
    2) Where do plants get their green color?
    So how do plants do it, and why can’t we? Plants have special
    structures called chloroplasts that animals don’t have. Chloroplasts _______________________________________
    are round, flat organelles that are arranged in stacks called grana. _______________________________________
    These stacks are filled with chlorophyll. Chlorophyll is what gives leafy
    green plants their green color. Their main job is to absorb light from the 3) Explain the relationship between people and
    sun. Chloroplasts can absorb every color except green. Light activates plants. Why are we good partners?
    the chlorophyll. It creates an energy that splits molecules of water, _______________________________________
    separating them out into hydrogen and oxygen. Chemical reactions take
    _______________________________________
    place. Hydrogen from the water combines with carbon from the carbon
    dioxide we breathe out. Oxygen is released into the air. _______________________________________
    People and plants make perfect partners. Plants rely on the carbon 4) What would happen if there were not enough
    dioxide that we breathe out, and we rely on the oxygen that they plants on Earth? _________________________
    “breathe” out. This is one good reason for protecting plant life on Earth.
    _______________________________________
    Algae fields near the poles produce a constant supply of oxygen for us.
    So do the many plants of Earth’s rainforests. We need plants in order _______________________________________
    to survive. 5) What is a chloroplast?
    Conservation projects around the globe are aimed at protecting our
    natural resources, including numerous species of plants. Our quality of _______________________________________
    life and the very quality of the air we breathe depends upon our green _______________________________________
    plant partners.

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