A Plant Like Flypaper

10/10/2020 5:33:00 PM

Do you know?

The sundew (or Drosera) is a spiky, carnivorous plant.
There are more than 190 species of sundew found around the world.

Let's explore more about this plant!

FACT: Sundew plant use enzymes to digest insects.

*Sundew plant. Image: spain.inaturalist.org*

Listen and choose the correct answer to each of the following questions.

Why do insects land on the sundew plant?
When the insects get stuck, what do they do?

Why do insects land on the sundew plant?

It is sticky.
It smells good to them.
It is like flypaper.

When the insects get stuck, they _____.

take minerals from the plant
eat the plant
will become food for the plant

Complete the text you are listening to by dragging the correct word to each blank.

A Plant Like Flypaper

Flypaper is sticky. It 3.1 good to flies. 3.2 land on it. They stick to the paper. The sundew plant is like flypaper. It smells good to insects. Insects fly to the plant and land on it. They stick to the plant.

What happens when the insects get 3.3? The plant eats them! The plant is carnivorous. When something is 3.4, it eats meat. Sundew plants live in soil that is missing important 3.5. Other plants could not survive there. They cannot grow without the needed minerals. How does a sundew plant survive? How does it get the important minerals it needs? It gets its minerals from the insects it eats!

Read and answer the following questions.

*A sundew catches an insect. Image: nwf.org*

Flypaper is sticky. It smells good to flies. Flies land on it. They stick to the paper. The sundew plant is like flypaper. It smells good to insects. Insects fly to the plant and land on it. They stick to the plant.

What happens when the insects get stuck? The plant eats them! The plant is carnivorous. When something is carnivorous, it eats meat. Sundew plants live in soil that is missing important minerals. Other plants could not survive there. They cannot grow without the needed minerals. How does a sundew plant survive? How does it get the important minerals it needs? It gets its minerals from the insects it eats!

Source: Daily Warm-ups Reading Grade 2

The plant is like flypaper because they are both _____.

traps
brown
teeth
brave

What animal is carnivorous?

cow
lion
deer
horse

Where do most other plants get important minerals?

from meat
from flies
from insects
from the soil

Put the right word in each blank. The sentences are from the text.

1. Sundew plants live in soil that is missing important 7.1.

2. When something is 7.2, it eats meat.

3. What happens when the insects get 7.3?

4. Flypaper is sticky. It 7.4 good to flies.

5. 7.5 land on it.

Put the right word in each blank. These are new sentences for words in the text.

1. Tigers are 8.1 animals.

2. This door seems to be 8.2 - can you help me push it open?

3. That soup 8.3 good.

4. Freshwater contains many kinds of 8.4.

5. 8.5 are small insects with two wings.