Where our food comes from
This is the place where fruits and vegetables are grown.
What is a farm?
This part grows underground and helps hold the plant in place.
What are roots?
Plants need this from the sky or a watering can.
What is water?
This is the top layer of the Earth where plants grow.
What is soil?
This is a person who grows food, raises animals, or takes care of crops.
Who is a farmer?
Farmers grow these in the soil for people to eat.
What are vegetables?
This part holds the plant up and moves water to the leaves.
What is the stem?
Plants use this bright light to help make their food.
What is sunlight?
This layer has dead leaves, small sticks, and other plant material.
What is the organic layer or humus?
These are planted in the ground and can grow into new plants.
What are seeds?
This is where farmers can sell the food they grow.
What is a farmers market?
This part uses sunlight to help the plant make food.
What are leaves?
Roots grow down into this and get nutrients from it.
What is soil?
This soil layer is important because many plant roots grow here.
What is topsoil?
Farmers use this tool or machine to break up and prepare soil for planting.
What is a plow or tractor?
Plants need sunlight, water, soil, air, and this to grow.
What is space or room to grow?
This colorful part can help make seeds.
What is the flower?
Plants need this invisible thing we breathe, too.
What is air?
This layer has less humus and more minerals than topsoil.
What is subsoil?
These helpful insects move pollen from flower to flower.
What are bees or pollinators?
This is the journey food takes from being grown on the farm to being eaten by people.
What is farm to table?
This part can grow into a new plant.
What is a seed?
Plants need enough of this so their roots and leaves can spread out.
What is room to grow?
This hard layer is found deep under the soil layers.
What is bedrock?
This is the process plants use to make their own food using sunlight, water, air, and chlorophyll.
What is photosynthesis?