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Does a Plant Have a Sweet Tooth?By Erin Horner

If you could eat any type of food allday long, what would you choose?Some people might pick hamburgers orchicken. Others might prefer fruit.What about sugar? Can you imagineeating sugar all the time? Believe it ornot, plants do. Plants make their ownfood. They make glucose. Glucose issugar. Plants make this sugar through aprocess known as photosynthesis. Thesugar made by plants, however, is notthe same kind of sugar that people eat.It is a simple sugar. The plants use thissimple substance. If people ate sugar all the time, they would bevery sick. Plants, on the other hand, use these sugars to help themgrow.

Does a Plant Have a Sweet Tooth?

Questions1. How do plants get glucose?

2. Some words in the story are used to signal a contrast betweenplants and people. Which of these words or phrases signals acontrast or difference?

A. bothB. likeC. on the other handD. are similar

3. Which of the following is an opinion from the above passage?A. Plants make their own food.B. Plants make sugar through a process known as

photosynthesis.C. Glucose is sugar.D. If people ate sugar all the time, they would be very sick.

4. What is this article mainly about?A. Why most people prefer fruit.B. The sugar that plants make during photosynthesis.C. Why sugar is bad for your health.D. The best sweet treats to eat all day long.

If you could only eat one food every day for the rest of your life, whatfood would you choose? Why would you choose it? Explain youranswer.

NameWhat do you think it would be like to be a plant and make your ownfood? Write a narrative from a plant's point of view all aboutphotosynthesis.