Maya's bean plant sits under a deep shelf. It is watered and has open air, but no light reaches its leaves. What input is missing for making food?

A classroom plant is in a sunny place and its soil stays moist. A tight clear cover keeps fresh air from reaching it for many days. What input is missing?

A marigold on a sunny windowsill has dry, cracked soil. Its leaves are in open air all day. What input for making food does it lack?

When a plant makes food, it gives off a gas into the air. What gas is it?

A pond plant gets water and light, but a sealed cover keeps air away from its leaves. What input can it not take in well?

Grass in an open field has bright sunlight and plenty of air. After many days with no rain, what input is missing for food-making?

A seedling is watered each day in an open room, but an opaque cardboard box with open vents on the sides covers it. What input cannot reach the leaves?

A tomato plant has wet soil and bright light. Its leaves also need to take in something around them to make food. What is it?

A pea plant is in open air and bright light, but its roots sit in dry soil. What must roots take in to help make food?

A plant's leaves take in air that the plant uses to make food. Where does the air enter the leaf?

A basil plant's roots take in water from the soil. What part carries that water up to the leaves?

Most leaves are green. What does the green material in a leaf do?

A healthy sunflower has roots, stems, flowers, and many green leaves. Where is most of the plant's food made?

A gardener covers a plant's leaves with dark cloth but leaves the stem and roots uncovered. What plant part cannot make food well?

A cactus has sharp spines instead of flat leaves. Which part of the cactus makes most of its food?

In a storm, many leaves are torn off a young tree. What food-making result is most likely?

A small plant is accidentally buried under a pile of soil. Which food-making part of the plant is now blocked from sunlight?

A carrot plant makes food in its leaves and stores extra food in another part. People eat that part. Which part is it?

A vine grows broad green leaves above the ground. Why does keeping the leaves in the light matter?

A potted plant's leaves are coated with thick mud after a splash. What food-making problem can happen?

A tiny maple seedling grows into a huge, heavy tree, but the soil around it barely changes. What did the tree mostly use to build its wood?

A plant has strong roots but only a few tiny leaves. What part limits how much food the plant can make?

In a meadow, grass makes food and rabbits eat grass. What gives rabbits their food energy at the start of this food chain?

Many pond plants die during a long cloudy month. What is likely to happen to snails that eat those plants?

A food chain is grass, then grasshopper, then bird. What starts the food energy that reaches the bird?

A garden has fewer bean plants after insects damage the leaves. What happens to caterpillars that depend on those plants?

Deer eat leaves from shrubs. What is the source of the food the deer get from those leaves?

Pond insects eat tiny plants, and fish eat the insects. If the tiny plants cannot make food, what happens next?

In a forest, caterpillars eat oak leaves, and birds eat the caterpillars. Where does the food energy that supports the birds start?

Corn plants in a field stop making food after their leaves are damaged. What will mice that eat corn seeds likely have?

Producers are important in food chains because they make food using sunlight, water, and air. What does that food provide to consumers?

A farmer spreads fertilizer on a cow pasture to help the grass grow. Is the fertilizer the grass's food?

A healthy bean plant is moved into a dark cupboard and watered every day for two weeks. What happens, and why?

A plant sits in a sunny window with open air, but it gets no water for many days. What result is most likely?

A small plant grows in a crack in a rock with only a little soil. How can it get the food it needs?

A pond has no large plants, but its water is full of tiny green algae. What job do the algae do in the pond food chain?

A seedling is watered, has open air, and sits in a sunny window. What result is most likely?

A plant growing in a sidewalk crack makes food in its leaves. What does it use most of that food for?

This plant grows in a rock crack, and no one waters it. Where does it most likely get the water it uses to make food?

A seedling is planted in fertilized soil but kept in darkness. What result is likely?