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Name: Dominique
Status: student
Age: 8
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Date: 1/21/2004
Question:
How water help plants grow?

Replies:
Some plants need more water to grow and other plants don't need as much water to grow.

http://www.arboretum.fullerton.edu/grow/primer/needs.asp

Plants need water and carbon dioxide (in the air) to make food (a sugar called glucose) and oxygen (for us to breathe)

http://www.nybg.org/chil_edu/teachersguide/whatdoplants.html

Anthony Brach Ph.D.
Harvard University


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