1. Top Score Wins PowerPoint
Science - Year 3
Plants – Block 3P
Roots and Shoots
Session 4
Top Score Wins PowerPoint
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2. Top Score
Wins

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. There are 17 questions altogether
Good Luck!

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

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

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

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

10. 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

11. 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

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

13. 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

14. 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

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

16. 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.

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

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

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

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

21. 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

22. 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.

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