Bugs
Are ladybugs good or bad for the garden?
Good bugs
A gardening technique where different plants are grown together to benefit each other through natural interactions
Companion planting
Where corn was first grown
Mexico
Where photosynthesis occurs
Leaves
Are worms insects?
No
The part of an insect that helps them smell
The colors that carrots can come in (There are five)
Orange, purple, red, yellow, and white
Where potatoes come from
What materials the stem transports through the plant
Water, dissolved minerals, and sugars
The number of acres in America that is used to grow corn
About 93 million
What the hind end of a parasitic wasp is for
Laying eggs
The part of a tomato you cannot eat
Leaves and vines
Where watermelon is from
Northeast Africa
The compound in plants that makes plants green and coverts light energy into chemical energy
Chlorophyll
The first European country to use potatoes as a major food source
Ireland
Ways to prevent damage from bad bugs (Name three)
Rotating crops, hand-picking them off, trapping them, planting resistant varieties, planting deterrent crops, etc.
Terracotta pot used for irrigation
Olla
Where carrots are originally from
Central Asia (Modern-day Iran and Afghanistan)
The part of a flower that produces pollen
The anther (the tip of the stamen)
Most grown crop in the world
Sugarcane
The diseases that cucumber beetles carry that are deadly to plants
Bacterial wilt and cucumber mosaic virus
The most nutritious vegetable
Watercress
Where eggplants come from
China and India
The tiny pores of the surface of leaves used to take in carbon dioxide and release oxygen
Stomata
Plant that was used in Maya rituals
Cacao