Nature’s Neighbors
Nature’s Neighbors
Do you know that plants live in communities just as people clo?
A forest is a plant community of many trees. A pond is a community of many water plants. Prairies, deserts, and oceans are plant communities, too.
Plants live in places that have the kind of weather and soil they need. Plants in a swamp grow best in a wet place. Plants in a desert grow best in a very dry place. Swamp plants and desert plants could never be neighbors.
Communities of plants and animals are called biomes. Every plant, animal, and person lives in some kind of biome. You can find out what kind you live in from the next few pages.
Where the plants change their clothes
Do the trees where you live change their clothes during the year? Do they wear light green buds in the springtime, dark green leaves in the summer, and beautiful reds, golds, and purples in the fall?…
Plants of the woodland community
Oak, maple, and hickory trees are common in the woodland. > Plants of the > > woodland community Life in the woodlands In fall, the leaves change color. Most birds fly south for winter. Snakes,…
Giant lawns
Grass doesn’t need as much water as trees and bushes do. So grass grows well in wide, flat places that are too dry for trees but not dry enough to be deserts. These places are like giant lawns. They…
Plants of the grassland community
> Grasses and small plants with white or colored flowers are neighbors > in a grassland. or bushes grow on a grassland, but there are many small plants with white or colored flowers. Big herds of…
