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Nature Plants Trees Flowers Fruits Fungi Animal kingdom Plankton Insects Insect anatomy Fish Feeding Crustaceans Amphibians Lif ...

ALBATROSS COLONY Every year, black-browed albatrosses return to the Falkland Islands in the Atlantic Ocean to breed. This albatr ...

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Plants (^1) GERMINATION A bean plant begins life as a seed with two halves, called cotyledons. In spring when the weather is mil ...

Stem is kept upright at first by water pressure, but is gradually stiffened with tough cellulose 11 from buds that form New leav ...

Trees are the tallest, heaviest, and oldest of all living things. The Californian giant sequoia known as General Sherman weighs ...

13 Hawth orn^ f^ ow er s FRUIT The fowers of some trees turn into juicy fruits that contain seeds. If birds eat the fruit, the s ...

14 (^1) FLOWER STRUCTURE A typical flower develops inside a bud at the end of a stalk. When the bud opens, it reveals a ring of ...

15 (^4) TRANSFERRING POLLEN Insects such as butterflies often drink nectar from one type of flower. Hummingbirds do the same, be ...

16 All plants produce fruits that contain their seeds. Some fruits are dry husks, but others are juicy and tasty. These attract ...

17 (^5) GRAPES Some fruits such as grapes grow as clusters of soft, edible, thin-skinned berries. Each berry has several seeds e ...

The mushrooms and other fungi that can appear overnight in damp places are not plants. They belong to a completely separate grou ...