Growing Plants
Conservation
The Food Web
Fruits and Veggies
Bees!
100
The name of a creature that lives in the soil.
What is a tardigrade or earthworm?
100
One way that we can help migrating birds.
What is turning off the lights at night?
100
The name of an animal that eats both plants and other animals, like a raccoon.
What is an omnivore?
100
One reason why it might be useful to grow our own fruits and vegetables.
It may be less expensive or fresher than the produce we can buy at the store.
100
The name of the bee that lays the eggs in a colony.
What is the queen?
200
Photosynthesis (the way that plants make their own food) requires carbon dioxide from the air, water, and one other important ingredient.
What is sunlight?
200
One way we can help pollinators, like bees and butterflies.
What is planting flowers for pollinator food?
200
Most plants are called autotrophs, which means that they don't eat animals or plants. Instead, plants 'eat' this.
What are sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide?
200
The way that bees help fruits and veggies to grow.
What is pollinating or helping to make seeds?
200
The lifespan of a bee.
What is six weeks?
300
The first stage in a plant's life cycle.
What is a seed?
300
One activity people can do on conservation land.
What is hiking, biking, picnicing, birdwatching, or exploring?
300
An example of a decomposer, or a species that helps to break down dead plants and animals in a habitat.
What are fungi or earthworms?
300
The type of land use that you think a community garden would belong to.
What is public or recreational?
300
Bees use these two ingredients from flowers to make honey.
What are pollen and nectar?
400
The part of the plant that grows below the soil surface.
What are the roots?
400
One difference between conservational and recreational land.
Conservation land - undeveloped nature where habitats are preserved; recreational land - outdoor space used for fun.
400
Coyotes are carnivores and only eat other animals. This is an example of an animal they might eat.
What are toads, squirrels, snakes, rabbits, or birds?
400
List four different fruits or veggies that our class is growing.
What are tomatoes, cucumbers, pumpkins, beans, or peas?
400
The reason that bees make honey.
What is to have food for the winter?
500
The reason that some of our plants have popsicle sticks in the soil.
What is 'staking them' or making it so they don't fall over?
500
One reason why it is important to conserve land.
What is protecting habitats?
500
Turkey vultures are examples of this type of animal, which only eat animals that are already dead.
What are scavengers?
500
Name six of the fruits and veggies on our Food Basics shopping list.
What are strawberries, cucumbers, carrots, grapes, blackberries, blueberries, broccoli, cauliflower, or peppers?
500
The name of bee hives that were used hundreds of years ago.
What is a skep?