Science - Year 3/4B Spring 2 Top Score Wins PowerPoint Plants Greatly Green Growers Session 4 Top Score Wins PowerPoint © Original resource copyright Hamilton Trust, who give permission for it to be adapted as wished by individual users. We refer you to our warning, at the foot of the block overview, about links to other websites.

Top Score Wins

This is a team game to help you learn even more about plants and what they need to grow strong and healthy. Some questions are easy and some are hard. Just give each question your best guess.

Each question has 2 possible answers: one on the left and one on the right. You must discuss the question in your group and choose which answer you think is correct. If your team does not agree, choose the answer most people think is correct. Stand together on that side of the line. If you are right, your team wins a point and your teacher will give you a token. At the end of the game, the team with the most tokens wins.

There are 20 questions altogether Good Luck!

Plants do not make their own food but instead get it from the soil

2. Plants make their food in … the roots the leaves

3. A plant makes food from 2 main ingredients. These are water and a gas in the air called carbon dioxide water and soil

4. The Carbon dioxide gas comes into the leaves from tiny holes underneath the leaves the stem

5. The plant needs energy to turn water and gas into food 5. The plant needs energy to turn water and gas into food. This energy comes from sunlight electricity

6. The leaves of the plant are like solar panels, stretched out to capture the sunlight and use its energy to make food. The green chemical that does this is called … chlorophyll vertigo

7. To stay healthy, a plant also needs minerals, rather like we need vitamins. A plant gets these minerals from … the air the soil

8. Healthy soil has lots of minerals and nutrients for plants 8. Healthy soil has lots of minerals and nutrients for plants. Farmers and gardeners add extra nutrients to soil by … digging in animal dung or artificial fertilisers spraying water onto it

9. A potted plant can sometimes run out of minerals and nutrients because it has used them all up because it needs more than other plants

10. Sometimes a potted plant gets too big for its pot and so it needs extra water this can stop it growing

11. Weeds are just plants that grow in places they are not wanted. Most gardeners clear away weeds so they don’t crowd in on plants and take some of their water and light. Most gardeners don’t mind too much about weeds as they don’t do any harm.

12. Grass needs cutting … all the year round much more in the summer months

13. The summer months are … warmer and the sunshine is stronger colder and darker

14. Plants become unhealthy or even die if they do not have the right factors. If a plant becomes droopy like this one, it is said to be … sulking wilting

15. Another sign of an unhealthy plant is when the leaves change colour. This problem is called … yellowing colouring

16. Sometimes plants grow too tall and become weak and spindly 16. Sometimes plants grow too tall and become weak and spindly. Plants with this problem are said to be … leggy floppy

17. Plants have adapted to live all over the planet 17. Plants have adapted to live all over the planet. Desert plants save water by … Not using it to make as much food as other plants Storing it in their thick fleshy stems.

18. Most plants make seeds. The seeds grow after a flower has been … Picked Pollinated

19. Plants often package their seeds in a fleshy structure called a … Fruit Vegetable

20. You can eat the flowers, fruits, leaves, roots and stems of many plants. All the edible parts of plants that are not fruits are called .. Greens Vegetables

Congratulations to the team with the most tokens! You are all now experts on plants! Well done!