What is Wheat?
true or false: wheat is a super grain
What is true
We eat this in a sandwich
What is bread
Where is the one place on earth that wheat is NOT grown
What is antarctica
How long has wheat been on earth
for about 10,000 years
True or False: Whet is part if the grass family
True
a single wheat seed is called this
wheat berry
you eat this with milk in the morning
what is cereal
what is the size of the wheat plane at the time of harvest
2 to 5 feet tall
Wheat is used to make is type of goo for lips
lip balm
A bushel of wheat weighs about 60 pounds about how many wheat kernels is that
1 million
name the 3 parts of the wheat berry
bran, endosperm, germ
this makes a great lasagna, or spaghetti.
pasta noodles
The massive machine that is used to harvest wheat
a combine
a single bushel of wheat can make this number of loaves of bread
90 loaves
Just how long can wheat last if stored in the right conditions?
for thousands of years
we use this part of the wheat betty for white flour
What is endosperm
name 2 types of bread
whole grain and white
how do farmers know the wheat is ready to harvest
by doing a chew test
Kansas alone can harvest enough wheat to makes this many loaves of bread each year
36 billion
in what country did archaeologists find wheat in tombs
Egypt
name the part of the wheat berry the is crunchy and fiber rich.
what is bran
20 %
how long does it take to wheat to grow from tiny seed to plant ready to harvest
What is 9 months
How long will 36 billion loaves feed the entire world?
2 weeks
Out of the 50 states how many grow wheat
42