What Plants Need
What do plants drink from soil?
Water
What part of the plant is attached to the ground?
Roots
What veggie grows under the soil and helps with your eyes?
carrots
What insect helps flowers grow by spreading pollen?
Bees
What flower always turns to face the sun?
Sunflower
Plants need what to start the first stage of photosynthesis?
Sunlight
The green part of a plant
Leaves
This fruit tree was started in the classroom last summer and is growing on top of the aquarium.
Avocado
What creatures are used to compost in a practice called vermiculture?
Worms
What season is when most flowers start to bloom?
Spring
A single teaspoon of this contains more microorganisms—bacteria, fungi, and microbes—than there are people on Earth. What is it?
Soil/Dirt
What part of the plant carries water all the way up the plant?
the stem
Which fruit would you NOT see growing outdoors in Massachusetts? Apples, Bananas, Peaches, Blueberries, Raspberries
What tool helps you dig holes in the garden?
Shovels
What flower was once more valuable than gold?
Tulips
What tiny helpers in soil are hermaphrodites?
Worms
What part of a plant is colourful and attracts all the bees?
flowers
What is the only fruit that seeds on the outside?
Strawberry
What type of gardening allows you to grow 2–3 times more food in less space due to higher-density planting and faster-warming soil, which extends growing seasons.
Raised Bed Gardening
What can plants help with your mood when touching them? (* what is the neurotransmitter )
Boost serotonin
What are the 3 major nutrients (chemicals)found in fertilizers, that plants need ?
Nitrogen, Potassium, Phospate
WHAT is the part of a plant which can grow into a new plant that is a reproductive structure which disperses, and can survive for some time.
SEED
What red fruit is often thought to be a vegetable?
TOMATO
What type of gardening grows plants without soil in nutrient-rich, oxygenated water, using up to 90% less water than traditional farming?
HYDROPONIC
What word is used to describe how people from different cultures have used plants throughout history?
Ethnobotany