Plants Eat What?
This bright, yellow star in the sky gives plants the energy they need to make food.
What is the Sun?
This is the color of most healthy plant leaves.
What is Green?
These grow underground and act like straws to suck up water from the dirt.
What are Roots?
Plants make this clean gas while making their food, and humans need to breathe it to stay alive.
What is Oxygen?
True or False: Plants eat soil (dirt) to grow bigger.
False! (Dirt holds the water and nutrients, but plants make their own food from air and sun!)
Plants "drink" this liquid from the soil through their roots. Humans drink it when they are thirsty too!
What is Water?
This is the special "green stuff" inside leaves that traps sunlight like a solar panel.
What is Chlorophyll?
This part of the plant acts like the "kitchen" where most of the food is cooked up using sunlight.
What are Leaves?
Unlike animals, plants cannot do this to go find a snack. They have to stay in one place!
What is Walk? (Accept: Move)
True or False: Plants can make food at night when it is totally dark.
False! (They need sunlight to make food.)
This is the type of air that plants breathe in to help them make food. (Hint: Humans breathe it out!)
What is Carbon Dioxide? (Accept: "Bad air" or "the air we breathe out")
This is the season when leaves lose their green power and turn red, orange, and yellow
What is Fall? (Accept: Autumn)
This is the tall, strong "elevator" of the plant that carries water from the roots up to the leaves.
What is the Stem? (Accept: Trunk for trees)
If you put a plant in a dark closet for a few weeks, this will happen to it because it has no light.
What is It will die? (Accept: It will turn brown/wilt)
True or False: Plants help humans and animals breathe cleaner air.
True!
Instead of eating pizza or burgers, plants make this type of sweet food for themselves using sunlight.
What is Sugar? (Accept: Glucose)
Leaves turn green because they are absorbing sunlight. This is the only color of light that the leaf doesn't like, so it bounces it back to our eyes.
What is Green light?
This beautiful, colorful part of the plant helps attract bees and butterflies, but it doesn't make the food.
What is the Flower?
This giant type of plant is the best at cleaning our air because it has thousands of leaves making oxygen.
What is a Tree?
Mushrooms and fungi make their own food using photosynthesis just like green plants.
False! (Mushrooms aren't green and don't use the sun; they get food from old wood and dirt.)
This is the word for the amazing recipe plants use to bake their own food using air, water, and sunlight.
What is Photosynthesis?
These are the tiny, invisible "mouths" on a leaf that open up to let air in.
What are Stomata? (Accept: Pores)
This is the protective outer "skin" of a tree trunk that keeps the inside water and food safe.
What is Bark?
In the word photosynthesis, "photo" means light. This is what the word "synthesis" means.
What is Putting together? (Accept: Making things or cooking)
True or False: Water plants that live deep under the ocean can still do photosynthesis.
True! (Sunlight can shine through the water so seaweed and algae can grow!)