Seeds
Any of these answers are correct:
Marigolds, sunflowers, and zinnias.
What is soil?
Soil is a mixture of rocks and living things like bugs that have died covering much of Earth’s surface.
What color can a leaf change to during the fall season?
Any of these answers:
Yellow, orange, and red.
Name one type of flower.
Any of these answers:
roses, marigolds, zinnias, sunflowers, daisies, etc.
What are two examples of pollinators?
Any of these answers:
Honey bees, ants, butterflies, and hummingbirds.
How do we plant a seed?
1. Use gardening trowel to dig a deep hole into the soil.
2. Place seed into the hole.
3. Refill the hole back up with soil and cover the seed completely.
4. Then water the soil to help the seed grow.
Why do we need to pull weeds from the soil?
Weeds can steal nutrients from the soil and make it hard for plants to grow.
Weeds can steal water and block sunlight from other plants.
Name two types of stems we eat.
Any of these answers:
Broccoli, Kale, Bamboo, and Asparagus.
List 3 things that a flower needs to help it grow.
Any of these answers:
Sunlight, seeds, water, people, soil, and pollinators.
What are pollinators?
Pollinators are animals that help plants produce fruit or seeds.
What are seeds?
Seeds are some plants way of reproducing.
They carry the genetic material to become a new plant!
Where does soil come from?
Soil comes from the Earth’s surface.
You can receive soil from the store or by digging deep enough into the ground beneath you.
Name two types of leaves we eat.
Any of these answers:
Cabbage, lettuce, spinach, and celery.
There are 250,000 to 400,000 different types of flowers. (True or False)
True
How do they pollinate?
They move pollen from one plant to the next to help different plants continue to grow.
Name 3 types of seeds we eat.
Any of these answers:
Sesame, watermelon, pumpkin, and sunflower.
Why is soil important for plants?
Soil is important for plants because it provides a place for plants to grow.
Without soil, most of life on Earth would not survive because most of everything we eat comes from soil.
What is the function of leaves?
Leaves help make food for the plant!
What are the two functions of a flower?
Flowers produce seeds that can help grow new plants.
Flowers attract insects like bees and butterflies or birds for pollination.
Without pollinators, much of the food we love, and need would be gone. (True or False)
True
What does germinating mean?
Is the process of a seed growing into a young plant with roots and leaves.
As the plant grows, it becomes stronger and taller with more leaves and flowers.
What are the four functions of a root?
Sucks up water and nutrients.
Anchor the plant.
Holds soil together
Stores food for the plant.
What are the two functions of a stem?
To raise the leaves to the sunlight and flowers for pollinators.
To transport water and nutrients to the leaves and back to the roots.
What are the 5 parts of a flower?
seed, stem, leaf, roots, and petals.
What are the four stages of a bee life cycle?
Egg, larva, pupa, and adult.