Reproduction
This type of reproduction creates a genetically identical plant using runners, bulbs, or cuttings.
What is asexual reproduction?
How did indigenous people meet their needs before farming?
What is hunting and collecting wild plants.
Plants need this gas for photosynthesis, which they absorb through tiny leaf openings.
What is carbon dioxide?
This common natural fibre comes from the fluff of a plant used widely in clothing.
cotton
The green pigment in plants is called what?
What is chlorophyll?
This plant structure contains the embryo and stores food until germination.
What is a seed?
Indigenous people had what type of impact on the enironment?
A low, sustainable impact.
Too much of this condition can suffocate plant roots and lead to rot.
What is water (overwatering)?
This plant has edible roots and is a major starch crop grown in Alberta.
Potatoes
What are the 3 structures that make up a plant called?
Pollination often depends on these animals, which include bees, butterflies, and birds.
What are pollinators?
What did the Europeans introduce to the indigenous peoples so that they could collect plants easier.
Agriculture/Farming
This type of farming grows only one type of plant over a large area, increasing efficiency but risk of disease.
What is monoculture?
This method is used to create the biggest and best plants over generations by using particular individuals.
Selective Breeding
This part of the plant anchors it in the soil and absorbs water and minerals.
Roots
In flowering plants, this part of the flower is where pollen lands and germination begins.
What is the stigma?
There are 60 million hectares of land in Alberta. How much of that native land has been turned into farmland?
20 million hectares
This crop is known for being discovered in Canada.
What is canola?
Another word for clothing made by humans is?
Synthetic clothing
This process allows plants to convert sunlight into energy-rich sugars.
Photosynthesis
This process occurs when seeds begin to grow after absorbing water, oxygen, and warmth.
What is germination?
Settlers in the late 1800s took how many years in order for the native land to be converted into crops?
less than 30 years
Large-scale agriculture depends on these three key inputs—added to soil or sprayed on plants—to boost yield but can harm ecosystems if overused.
What are fertilizers, pesticides, and herbicides?
The 7 most popular crops around the world that supply people with food.
Wheat, Rice, Maize (corn), Potatoes, Barley, Cassava, Sorghum
This type of agriculture uses no synthetic chemicals and focuses on natural soil health.
Organic farming