Page 10 - prim 5 booklet 2025 modified
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Delta Modern Language Schools
Science department
Grade 5
1st term 2024 -2025
How human systems might be similar to plant systems?
►Need for energy:
Both plants and humans need energy and gases from the air to survive and grow.
Plants Humans
•Plants can manufacture their own • Humans must eat food throughout the
energy in the form of glucose through
photosynthesis process. day to get energy, as they chew and
swallow the food; nutrients are
•Glucose: absorbed into the blood.
It is the plant sugar that is produced •Air enters the human body through the
during photosynthesis and provides nose and mouth then travels to the lungs
energy for the plant to survive and where oxygen is absorbed into
grow. circulating blood.
•Gases enter plants through leaves.
•Plant transport system:
•Water and nutrients are taken up by the roots through Xylem are transported to the
leaves to make the plant food.
•When the water arrives to the leaves they begin to produce glucose sugar.
•The phloem carries the glucose sugar downward into all other parts of the plant to grow.
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