Plant Power
What is the Sun?
True or False: Photosynthesis happens at night when it is dark
False (It needs light!)
These parts of the plant grow underground and drink up water.
What are roots?
To stay hydrated and help make food, plants drink this liquid from the soil.
What is water?
We get this important gas from plants every time we take a breath.
What is oxygen?
This is the name of the green color found inside most plants?
What is chlorophyll?
True or False: Humans produce their own food through photosynthesis.
False
This is the gas that plants release, which humans need to breathe.
What is oxygen?
Plants need this to stay upright; it also acts like a "highway" to carry water to the leaves.
What is the stem?
These are the red or green snacks we pick from trees that are made using photosynthesis.
What are apples (or fruit)?
This is the specific part of the plant where most of the "food making" happens.
True or False: Oxygen is a "waste product" that plants give off.
True
This "season" is when many leaves lose their chlorophyll and turn orange or red.
What is Autumn (or Fall)?
This is the stuff plants grow in; it provides them with vitamins and minerals.
What is dirt (or soil)?
An animal that eats only plants is called by this name.
What is a herbivore?
While we breathe in oxygen, plants "breathe" in this gas.
What is carbon dioxide?
True or False: Roots help photosynthesis by soaking up water.
True
If a plant is kept in a dark closet, it will eventually die because it can't do this.
What is photosynthesize (or make food)?
If you want a plant to grow big and strong, you should make sure it has plenty of this "room to grow."
What is space?
Besides food and air, plants also give us this when they grow tall and block the sun.
What is shade?
Plants use sunlight to turn water and air into this, which they use for food.
What is sugar (or glucose)?
True or False: Mushrooms and fungi use photosynthesis to grow.
False (They get food from decaying matter)
This is the name for any living thing that can make its own food.
What is a producer?
This is the tiny "starter kit" that a plant grows from.
What is a seed?
This is the name for the whole "system" where plants make food, animals eat plants, and other animals eat them.
What is a food chain?