they are needed because it will help them stay alive and grow beautiful and so they stay healthy ok :)
Soil contains minerals needed by the plant to produce food. Much in the same way humans need specific vitamins and minerals in order to properly function, plants too need minerals to produce certain nutrients in order to grow and thrive. Consider chloroplasts to be the pot where the food is prepared: the ingredients needed are sunlight (energy), as well as carbon dioxide, water and minerals. Some examples of essential minerals needed by plants include nitrogen, potassium, magnesium, calcium and sulfur. The plant draws these minerals from the soil. Different types of fertilizers contain various amounts of these minerals depending on which is lacking in the soil.
Plants absorb minerals and water from the soil through their roots. These nutrients are then stored in the root cells in the form of sugars, starches, and other compounds. Plants can also store excess water and minerals in specialized storage tissues, such as parenchyma cells or vacuoles, to use when needed.
minerals
Most of the minerals we need are the same ones plants require for their own growth. We both need: carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, phosphorous, potassium, sulfur, calcium, magnesium, iron, boron, manganese, copper, zinc, molybdenum and chlorine. Plants don't store minerals for our benefit -- they use them for their own life cycles. If any of their 16 essential elements is not available, the plant withers and dies. If you buy a tomato or a red bell pepper, you know that the plant grew successfully and had all of the minerals it needed. When you eat a wide variety of foods from plants, and animals who eat plants, you will get plenty of these minerals. The minerals we need that plants don't need are sodium, iodine, fluoride, selenium and cobalt. They may be in plants, but the plants do not die if they are not available. Most people get plenty of these minerals because our diet is abundant in salt, our water is fluoridated, and we eat foods grown in many different locations. Plants grown far from the oceans lack iodine, and a person who ate only those plants would have goiter, but this condition is no longer seen in North America because we use iodized salt and eat foods from all parts of the continent. If you eat a moderately varied diet that includes plenty of plants, you should get all the minerals you need and your body regulates them efficiently. Strict vegetarians should check the amount of calcium in the foods they eat, and may wish to take supplements or foods fortified with calcium.
minerals are a resource because plants need minerals to survive and grow
from the soil of the plant. :) monthaha a
plants and trees
of course. it is one of the three major minerals needed by plants.
Nitrogen and phosphorus are two.
loam because loam consist of minerals that are needed by the plants to grow healthy.
Soil is only a medium containing minerals which the plant needs. If a plant was provided with the minerals it needed from a liquid it would grow quite happily. Hydroponics is the method of growing plants in water with the correct minerals added.
Soil contains minerals needed by the plant to produce food. Much in the same way humans need specific vitamins and minerals in order to properly function, plants too need minerals to produce certain nutrients in order to grow and thrive. Consider chloroplasts to be the pot where the food is prepared: the ingredients needed are sunlight (energy), as well as carbon dioxide, water and minerals. Some examples of essential minerals needed by plants include nitrogen, potassium, magnesium, calcium and sulfur. The plant draws these minerals from the soil. Different types of fertilizers contain various amounts of these minerals depending on which is lacking in the soil.
Calcium helps builds strong plant cell walls. Iron and magnesium are also needed by plants. Plants that don't have enough iron get yellow leaves.
It needs energy from the sun or sunlight,water and minerals and carbon dioxide or CO2
Roots of plants absorb water and minerals from the soil through a process called osmosis. This allows plants to take up essential nutrients needed for growth and function. Water and minerals are then transported through the plant's vascular system to different parts of the plant.
There are no minerals in sunlight. Plants obtain all their minerals from decomposed organic material in the soil.
Plants absorb minerals and water from the soil through their roots. These nutrients are then stored in the root cells in the form of sugars, starches, and other compounds. Plants can also store excess water and minerals in specialized storage tissues, such as parenchyma cells or vacuoles, to use when needed.