Pond plants

In your book, Our Wondrous World (Chapter 1), the Information Card also tells us about plants that live in and around a pond. They grow in different places.

Reeds are edge plants. They grow along the edges of ponds, and they are tall and grass-like. Lotus and water lily are rooted floating plants: their flowers float on the water, but their roots stay in the pond bed. Water hyacinth is a free-floating plant: it grows fast, floats and spreads across the water.

Your book also has an activity. Put a drop of water on a plain piece of paper, and the water soaks into the paper. Now colour the paper with a wax crayon and put a drop on it. This time the drop stays on top as a round bead!

Many leaves are like that coloured paper. They have a waxy coating that makes them waterproof. It keeps too much water from getting inside the plant, which helps the plant stay healthy and not get damaged.