Plant Products
This plant product is grown in Virginia and is used to make bread, muffins, and cereal.
What is wheat?
This animal uses a tree for a home and eats acorns.
What is a squirrel?
These parts of a plant hold soil in place and stop it from washing away.
What are roots?
This Virginia region is flat and good for growing peanuts and cotton.
What is the Coastal Plain?
How do plants help both people and animals at the same time?
What is by giving food, shelter, and oxygen?
Peanut farms help the land in this region of Virginia.
What is the Coastal Plain?
Plants give this gas that animals need to breathe.
What is oxygen?
Trees can block this kind of weather that blows very hard.
What is wind?
Apples are often grown in this cooler, higher part of Virginia.
What is the Blue Ridge Mountains?
If a town cuts down a forest to build stores, what might happen to animals that live there?
What is they might lose homes or food and have to move?
Name one way a community can grow if farmers grow crops there.
What is more jobs, more food, or more people moving there?
Name two ways animals use plants.
What are food and shelter?
What could happen to the land if plants were taken away?
What is the soil could blow or wash away? (Erosion)
Name one reason why a certain crop might grow better in one region than another.
What is because of the soil, temperature, or rainfall?
Why do farmers plant grass on bare soil after harvesting crops?
Why do farmers plant grass on bare soil after harvesting crops?
This crop helps Virginia’s economy and is used to make cooking oil and animal feed.
What are soybeans?
Compare how a bird and a deer might both use plants.
What is birds use trees for nests and deer eat leaves or hide in bushes?
Name one way plants near rivers protect the land during a storm.
What is they slow down water and stop flooding or erosion?
Predict what might happen if a farmer tried to grow peanuts in rocky mountain soil.
What is the peanuts might not grow well or the farmer wouldn’t get many crops?
You are designing a park. Where would you plant trees, and why?
Answers may include: near playgrounds for shade, near water to stop erosion, along paths for beauty and shelter.
Explain how plant products grown in Virginia can help the whole state, not just farmers.
What is by helping businesses, feeding people, or bringing money into the state?
Create a food chain using at least one plant and two animals.
Example: Grass → Rabbit → Fox
Draw or describe a model that shows how plants reduce damage from rain and wind.
Example: Trees blocking wind, grass roots holding soil.
Name where three different plant products are grown in Virginia.
Example: peanuts in Coastal Plain, apples in Blue Ridge, corn in Piedmont.
Predict what might happen to animals, land, and people in a place where plants are removed for farming, but no new plants are added.
Answers should include loss of homes, erosion, less oxygen, and long-term problems for people and animals.