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How Plants Make Food
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How Plants Make Food
📚 Part 1: Multiple Choice & Matching
1. Which three things do plants need to make food (photosynthesis)?
Soil, wind, and minerals
Sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide
Oxygen, sugar, and heat
2. Where inside a leaf does most photosynthesis happen?
In the roots
In the chloroplasts (cells in the leaf)
In the flower
3. What is the role of chlorophyll?
To absorb sunlight and give leaves their green colour
To make soil nutrients
To take up water from the soil
4. Check all the correct outputs of photosynthesis:
Glucose (sugar)
Oxygen
Carbon dioxide
Heat
5. Match each input or output to its symbol — draw a line between columns.
A. Sunlight (te rā)
B. H₂O (wai)
C. CO₂ (hau / carbon dioxide)
D. O₂ (oxygen)
1. O₂ (product plants release)
2. Energy source from the sun
3. Water taken up by roots
4. Gas taken from the air by leaves
✏️ Part 2: Short Answers & Diagram
6. In one sentence, explain why photosynthesis is important for people and other animals.
7. Complete the blanks with words: water, carbon dioxide, sunlight, glucose, oxygen.
Plants use __________, __________ and __________ to make __________ and __________ during photosynthesis.
8. You did a leaf experiment in sunlight. What would you expect to observe if photosynthesis is happening? Describe one clear observation.
9. Draw a simple labelled diagram of the photosynthesis cycle. Show: sun, leaf (chlorophyll), water, carbon dioxide, glucose (food) and oxygen. Add te reo Māori words if you know them.
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