Animals and Plants. Kolesnikova Masha 8«D» Kolesnikova Masha 8«D»

Animals and Plants.Animals and Plants. Kolesnikova Masha 8Kolesnikova Masha 8««DD»»

As scientists sayAs scientists say,, an animal is any an animal is any living living thing(including thing(including people)that is not people)that is not a plant.No one a plant.No one knows how many knows how many different species different species of wild plants and of wild plants and animals there are animals there are on our planet.on our planet.

People discover People discover hundreds of new hundreds of new kinds every kinds every year.In what way year.In what way are animals are animals different from different from plantsplants??This This question is not question is not always easy to always easy to answer.answer.

Animals and plants Animals and plants get their food get their food differentlydifferently::animals animals eat plants or other eat plants or other animalsanimals,,while while plants get their plants get their food from the air food from the air and soil with the and soil with the help of their leaves help of their leaves and roots.But we and roots.But we know that some know that some plants catch and plants catch and “eat” insects.“eat” insects.

Also animals can Also animals can move about while move about while plants grow in the plants grow in the place but there are place but there are some plants that some plants that can travel and can travel and some animals that some animals that never leave their never leave their place.As you see place.As you see plants and animals plants and animals have very much in have very much in common.common.

There are more There are more than 300than 300,000,000 different species of different species of plants on plants on earth.Some plants earth.Some plants grow very tall and grow very tall and live a very long live a very long life. Other plants life. Other plants are so tiny that you are so tiny that you can see them only can see them only through a through a microscope.microscope.

The same is The same is true about true about animals.You animals.You can find plants can find plants and animals is and animals is the oceans and the oceans and desertsdeserts,,in in mountains and mountains and in cold tundra in cold tundra plains.plains.

When people When people first learned to first learned to cultivate cultivate plants and plants and domesticate domesticate animalsanimals,,our our civilization civilization began.We began.We can’t live can’t live without them.without them.

Plants are able Plants are able to use sunlight to use sunlight to build to build themselves themselves up.They use up.They use carbon dioxide carbon dioxide gas and gas and “breathe out” “breathe out” life-giving life-giving oxygen. They oxygen. They support life on support life on the planet.the planet.