NCERT Book Class 4 EVS Chapter 19 Abdul in the Garden

It was a holiday. Abdul was helping his Abbu in the garden.
Abbu was clearing the dried leaves and grass from the vegetable
beds. Abdul started to pull out the grass from one of the beds.
He found that it was not easy to pull out even the small grass.
His hands became red by the effort. In trying to pull out grass,
Abdul knocked down a stick that was supporting the pea plant
(climber). The delicate stem of the pea plant broke. Abbu said,
“Why are you pulling the grass? The roots of the grass are strong.
You will have to dig them out.” Abdul carefully dug out the plant.
He then saw that the roots of the grass plant were longer and
much more spread out than the part of the plant above the ground.
Ö The stick which was stuck in the ground fell very easily. It
was difficult to pull out a small grass. Why?
Ö Do all plants have roots?

Ö Look at some plants and
trees around you.
Imagine how deep and
spread out the roots of
these are.