Core Knowledge Science: Plant Needs Quiz

What do plants need to live?

• garden, air, and water

• water, sunlight, air, and nutrients from the soil

• water and air

• sunlight and water

What do butterflies need to live?

• plants and air

• shelter and soil

• shelter and food

• food and air

How can we test that plants need sunlight?

• Do nothing.

• Put one plant in soil and the other plant in no soil.

• Put one plant in the dark and another in the sunlight.

• Water one plant and do not water the other plant.

If you are testing two plants to see if they need water, you should put both in the sunlight. You should water one plant and not water the other one.

• True

• False

Plants will wilt, not grow, or yellow if they don't get enough sun and water.

• True

• False

What carries water and nutrients to the rest of the plant?

• flower

• root

• stem

Most plants begin their life cycle as _______________.

• seeds

• roots

• flowers

Plants are _________.

• living things

• nonliving things

The parts of a plant are ________.

• red and yellow

• solid, liquid and gas

• roots, flower, stem, fruit.

What is an observation?

• saying what you think is going to happen

• using your senses to study something closely