Corn Parts
Tough stem that supports the corn plant.
What is the Stalk?
What three plants make up the "Three Sisters"?
What are corn, beans, and squash?
Finish the phrase:
"Humans grow corn as a food source to provide energy to __________ and livestock."
What are "people?"
What is the name corn was known by originally?
What is Maize?
True!
The part of corn that is home to the kernels
What is a cob?
When one kind of plant is farmed one year, and a different plant is farmed the following year.
Year 1 - Corn : Year 2 - Beans : Year 3 - Corn
What is crop rotation?
Fuel that is made from corn.
What is ethanol?
Where was corn first farmed?
What is Mexico?
True or False: Sodas like Pepsi and Coca-Cola contain corn.
True!
Corn syrup is used as a sweetener in sodas
Collects sunlight for the plant.
What is the leaves?
Fertilizing one kind of corn with the pollen of a different kind of corn.
What is hybrid corn?
True or False: Most of the corn in the United States is used for feeding people
False
What is the Three Sisters method?
How many kernels can an ear of corn have?
What is between 500-1,000 kernels?
What is the male organ of the corn plant called?
What is the tassel?
What is the vocabulary term for two plants or animals that help each other?
What is mutually beneficial?
What is the majority of corn used for in the United States?
A. Food
B. Exported (Sold to other countries)
C. Fuel
D. Feed (for animals) / other
What is D. Feed (for animals) / other?
41% Feed
33% Fuel
15% Food
11% Export
When did Europeans move to North America and begin to farm corn? (Ex: 1300's, 1900's, etc.)
What are the 1600's?
Corn is a part of what larger plant family?
Flowers, trees, grasses
What is grasses?
Considered the seeds of the corn plant
What are kernels?
What is the nickname for the area of the United States that grows the most corn?
What is the Corn Belt?
Which of these items contains corn in some way?
Bricks, lightbulbs, diapers
What are diapers?
What is the most recent method of corn farming that's been developed?
What is hybrid corn?
Corn is produced on every continent but this one.
North America
South America
Africa
Autstralia
Antartica
Asia
Europe
What is Antarctica?