What is the need for the transportation of minerals and nutrients in plants?

Plants need water, minerals & nutrients for their survival; these things come from soil. Roots do the main work for this movement, they dig into the soil and expand there, absorb water and minerals. Due to gravitational pull, water goes upward with minerals and nutrients to do vital activities like photosynthesis, respiration, etc. That’s why transportation is essential. In other words, if I give a real-world example, taking rations from the market for preparation of food in the kitchen or collecting raw food materials from the store room of your house to the kitchen for preparation of food.

What minerals are found by Roots inside Soil?

Soil is like a reservoir (Marts of Plants) of mineral elements:

The Colloidal particles of soil, also known as micelles, hold nutrients/minerals.
Later, these nutrients are released as soil solutions for roots.
Micelle spreads like a sheet on soil, it has a large surface area & carries a number of charges on the surface.
It(micelle) has lots of Silica ions (Si4+). As time passes, the Silica ions are replaced by Aluminum ions (Al3+), and aluminum is replaced by Magnesium ions(Mg2+), and Mg replaced by Iron ions(Fe2+).
Like this, Micelle becomes a negatively charged surface. Due to this, its attract cations that are Ca2+, Mg2+, & K+ through adsorption.
Later, these Cations get away by rainwater; as a result, the anions are free from soil particles/micelles.
Due to this, plants have a diverse availability of cations & anions.
On the other hand, microorganisms do their work, i.e., decomposition of dead organic remains for the formation of organic matter.
And nitrogen-fixing bacteria fix/add nitrogen to the Soil.

Like this soils provides lots of minerals/nutrients to the plants through Xylem & Phloem.

Minerals & Nutrients Absorbed by the plant's roots/ absorption of minerals by roots: Mechanism?

Roots absorb minerals in two ways: by Rapid Uptake and Steady uptake. And these two ways are called

Passive Ion Uptake
Active Ion Uptake

temperature has a significant role in these methods for rapid & steady uptake of ions.

Passive Ion Uptake:

This follows Apoplast pathways
Absorption of ions into the cell without expenditure of energy.
It is carried out by Simple diffusion, Mass flow, & Ionic exchange.
It doesn’t require energy, enzymes, or a carrier.
Its Happened in the free space of plant tissue

Active Ion Uptake:

This follows Symplast pathways.
Absorption of ions into the cell against a concentration gradient with expenditure of Energy.
In this process, the ions enter the cytoplasm and accumulate in the vacuole.
It required energy, enzymes, and a specific carrier.
It is a slow process.

Conclusion :

We depend on plants for food, just as we take raw plants like vegetables or fruits from the field/garden, like these plants also want raw materials for their food preparation, and these raw materials are minerals or nutrients that are present in soil. So plants pluck these from the soil by a mechanism and prepare their food for survival. These are my notes if you find any mistakes in this, please let me know in the comment section, and if you like this comment for PDF, I will provide you with a PDF with my hand-drawn diagrams.