Seed Development
This is the first part of a seed to emerge during germination. It grows downward and becomes the root.
What is the radicle?
What is the name of the gardening method divides a growing area into small, organized sections to make the best use of space?
What is square-foot gardening technique?
This term describes a community where residents have limited access to affordable, nutritious food.
What is a food desert?
What do we call gases in the atmosphere that trap heat?
Greenhouse gases.
What form of renewable energy uses sunlight to produce electricity?
Solar.
Which of these two vegetables can be planted in September in DC: tomatoes, spinach?
What is spinach?
These are the first seed leaves. They often provide stored food to a young plant.
What are cotyledons?
According to our class chart, which size category is used for carrots and radishes: XS, S, M, or L?
What is XS?
This term describes an area where unhealthy food options, such as fast food and convenience-store snacks, are more common or easier to find than healthy options.
What is a food swamp?
Name one greenhouse gas.
Methane, carbon dioxide.
What form of renewable energy uses moving air to turn turbines and generate electricity?
What is wind?
Of these plant types: fruits, leafy, and root-based, which are more capable of growing in DC in the fall?
What are leafy and root-based?
These leaves grow after the cotyledons and begin to look more like the mature plant’s leaves.
What are true leaves?
According to our class chart, which size category is used for broccoli and cabbage?
What is large?
These two DC wards have the fewest grocery stores in them.
What are Wards 7 and 8.
Burning these energy sources releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere: coal, oil, and natural gas. What are these energy sources called?
Fossil fuels.
What form of renewable energy uses moving or falling water to generate electricity?
What is hydro?
These two seasons end and start in September.
What are summer and fall?
This must be present on a plant before thinning can occur.
What are true leaves?
A gardener has very little space and wants to grow radishes. Which size category should the gardener choose according to our class chart, and why is square-foot gardening helpful?
What is XS?
What term highlights the role of racism, policies, and unequal power in creating unfair access to healthy food?
What is food apartheid?
What is sea level rising?
This fossil fuel is created by years of heat, pressure, and is old plants and animals (and is black).
What is coal?
These two environmental factors explain why watermelons grow in the summer and not in the fall in DC.
What is less sunlight and lower temperatures.
Put these stages in the correct order: true leaves, radicle, cotyledons, shoot.
What is: radicle, shoot, cotyledons, true leaves.
A student wants to grow lettuce, bush beans, and broccoli. Using our class chart, identify the correct size category for each crop.
What is M, M, and large
What are white and rich/wealthy?
This effect, caused by more carbon dioxide being added to ocean, is causing harm to sea life.
What is ocean acidification?
This fossil fuel is created by millions of years of heat, pressure, and are old marine organisms.
What is natural gas?
The name of this tool is used to protect our garden beds from groundhogs.
What are row covers?