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How Does Your Garden Grow Question Sheet
1. What is the title of the article?
2. What is the topic of the article?
3. What are two possible reasons people in the United States are growing their own food?
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4. According to the article, what is a plant seed?
5. What is the name for the process plants use to make food?
6. What three components are used in this process?
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7. Do plants need soil to grow? Underline the evidence in the article that supports your
answer and label it “Question 7”.
8. What are two adaptations of plant that are mentioned in the article and which component
of photosynthesis does it help the plant receive?
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9. On your own, come up with one more adaptation of a plant and say which component of
photosynthesis it helps the plant receive?
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10. Do all plants need the same amount of sunlight? Underline the evidence in the article
that supports your answer and label it “Question 10”.
11. What 2 steps does photosynthesis consist of?
12. What part of the cell does photosynthesis take place in?
13. What is the difference between chloroplasts and chlorophyll?
14. Why is light important for photosynthesis? What does it do?
15. What do the hydrogen atoms from the water molecules combine with to create sugar?
16. What is the chemical equation for photosynthesis?
17. What are the reactants of photosynthesis?
18. What are the products of photosynthesis?
19. In paragraph 8 it states that photosynthesis is the most important natural process and
basis for life on earth as we know it. Based on what you have learned about
photosynthesis, why do you think that the author believes this?
20. What analogy does the article use to explain what fertilizer is for plants?
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21. Is fertilizer food for plants? Underline two sentences from the article as evidence to
support your answer and label them “Question 21”.
22. In your own words explain what role fertilizer has on the growth of plants.
23. Where do plants get the energy they need for growth?
24. “The sugar molecule that is created in photosynthesis stores energy for later use in the
plant.” Underline evidence in the article that supports this statement and label it
“Question 24”.
25. Where do animals get the energy they need for growth?
26. What are six things from the article that plants provide for us?
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27. On you own, come up with one other thing that plants provide for us.
28. In ​three complete sentences,​ describe what the world would be like without
photosynthesis.