Topic 1
These plants make up 75% of the world's food supply.
What are wheat, barley, potatoes, rice, corn, sorghum and cassava?
This part of the plant absorbs water and minerals from the soil.
What are roots?
These are the male and female parts of the flower.
What are the stamen and pistil?
This is the part of the soil that is rich in nutrients.
What is humus?
This occurs when an organism absorbs a substance faster than it can be lost or absorbed.
What is bioaccumulation?
These plants are three examples of food for medicine.
What are ginger root, white willow bark, and poppy?
This pigment makes leaves green.
What is chlorophyll?
These make up the male part of the flower.
What are the anther and filament?
This is the movement of soil that creates a loss of organic matter for growing plants.
What is erosion?
This is essential if we are to keep our natural resources healthy in the long term.
What is sustainability?
This plant produces one of the most important products that people use.
What is the rubber tree?
This is the tendency of particles to move from an area of high concentration to an area of low concentration.
What is diffusion?
These make up the female part of the flower?
What are the stigma, style and ovary?
These break down plant and animal tissue to create humus.
Who are decomposers?
This is the process by which pollen travels to the plant's ovary.
What is pollination?
This plant can be used for heating our homes.
What is wood?
This is a type of diffusion where only some particles are allowed to pass through a differentially permeable membrane.
What is osmosis?
When a plant is pollinated, this is formed.
What is a seed?
This helps roots grow by trapping water and air.
What is humus?
These are the four main crops that Alberta produces.
What are wheat, oats, canola, and barley?
This plant can be turned into ethanol gas.
What is sugar cane?
This process allows the plant to make sugar and give off oxygen from carbon dioxide.
What is photosynthesis?
These are five ways that seed can be dispersed or transported away from the parent plant.
What is wind, droppings, animal fur, fire and waterways?
These are the five factors that determine how soils develop.
What are parent material, climate, vegetation, landscape and time?
This is when a farmer only grows one type of crop in a particular area.
What is monoculture?