Parts of the Plant
This part of the plant takes in water and holds the plant in the soil.
What are the roots?
Plants drink this.
What is water?
These insects make honey and help pollinate flowers.
What are bees?
This red, round fruit grows on a vine?
What is a tomato?
This tool is used to dig holes for planting seeds.
What is a shovel/trowel?
This part of the plant carries water and food from the roots up to the leaves.
What is the stem?
Plants need this light to make food.
What is sunlight?
This insect starts as a garden pest but later turns into a butterfly that helps with pollinating plants?
What are caterpillars?
This vegetable grows underground and is often the color orange.
What is a carrot?
This material is often put in the soil to help plants grow.
What is fertilizer/compost?
This green part of the plant makes food for the plant using sunlight.
What are leaves?
Plants breathe in this gas to help them grow.
What is carbon dioxide?
These garden creatures wiggle through the soil helping the soil stay healthy for plants.
What are earthworms?
This fruit is round, can be red, green, or yellow, and grows on trees.
What are apples?
These are often pulled out of the soil by gardeners because they compete with plants for water and space.
What are weeds?
This part of a plant makes seeds for new plants.
What is the flower?
This material in the ground gives plants minerals?
What is soil?
These spotted bugs are called "a gardener's friend" because they eat tiny bugs that hurt plants?
What are ladybugs?
This vegetable is green and looks like little trees.
What is broccoli?
This is the process of giving plants extra water from a hose or watering can.
What is watering/irrigation?
Each plant grows from this.
What is a seed?
This is the food-making process that happens in the leaves of a plant.
What is photosynthesis?
This is the process in which pollen moves from one flower to another to help make seeds.
What is pollination?
This red fruit has seeds on the outside.
What are strawberries?
This support is used for some plants, like our sugar snap peas, that allows them to grow tall as they climb.
What is a trellis?