Plant Products
This is a name for any useful product, like lumber or paper, that comes from a plant.
What are plant products?
Besides food and oxygen, plants provide this for animals to meet a basic life need.
What is shelter?
This crunchy food, often served in a shell, is grown in Virginia’s Coastal Plains.
What are peanuts?
This is one of the basic life needs that plants provide to both humans and animals, such as apples, corn, and peanuts.
What is food?
This Virginia crop is grown in the Coastal Plains and is used to make a soft fabric for clothes.
What is cotton?
A bird uses small plant parts like twigs and leaves to build this type of plant home.
What is a nest?
True or False: The region of Virginia in the Blue Ridge Mountains grows evergreen trees and is where the Valleys and Ridges are located.
What is True
Name three things that plants provide—that all living things need to survive.
What is food, shelter, and oxygen?
This useful plant product is made from trees and is used to build houses and furniture.
What is lumber?
Squirrels often use the trunk of a large tree for this.
What is a home or shelter?
The Piedmont region of Virginia grows apples, tobacco, and this leafy food used in coleslaw.
What is cabbage?
Plants are a type of this because they are materials that come from nature and are useful to humans and animals.
What are natural resources?
True or False: Growing lots of a product like soybeans in an area can help the people there because they can use and sell the product.
What is true.
A small insect like a caterpillar uses a plant's leaves as food and also uses them for this.
What is shelter?
True or False: Different plants grow in different places because the necessary resources like water and soil are not the same everywhere.
This is the gas that plants release that is a basic need for all animals and humans to survive.
What is oxygen?
This Virginia crop is grown in the Coastal Plains (Tidewater) and is important because the plant product is a major ingredient in peanut butter, enabling a whole industry to thrive in that part of the state.
What are peanuts?
Give at least 2 reasons a tree is important to a squirrel
What is it provides shelter (a home) and food (acorns)
The plants that grow well in Virginia, like corn and apples, are considered this type of material because they come from nature and are used by people.
What are natural resources?
If a beaver uses a tree to build a dam, or if humans use lumber to build a house, the plant is providing this basic need.
What is shelter (or homes)?