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Creation Day 3: God creates the "chemical" breath of life
Why God created plants before animals. The Bible records that God created the first plant life on Earth at the end of Creation Day 3 and the first animals at the beginning of Day 5. Let's see if you can figure out why God created plants before animals by answering three thought provoking questions. Are you ready? • What do we call the section of a grocery store where vegetables are found? • What is the general name given to the vegetables found in this section? • Why do you think we assign this common name to all vegetables ? The answers to these questions and more will be found on the following page. Some amazing facts about the relationship of plant roots and water
• Did you know that water comprises 80 to 90% of the p lant's total weight ? • God created the roots of plants to act as both sponges and anchors with unique ability to absorb the needed nutrients and water from the soil that supports them. • God also created roots with the amazing ability to grow away from dry sites toward wetter patches in the soil - a phenomenon scientists called hydrotropism . • Plants don’t require soil to produce food. They can be grown hydroponically using only sunlight and by immersing their roots in water enriched with the minerals needed by the plant.
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