Plants for Food and Fibre

Alberta Topic B: Plants for Food and Fibre.

9 questions, free, marked as you go with a worked explanation on every one.

What this covers

The process by which plants use sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide to make food is:
The transfer of pollen from one flower to another, enabling seed production, is called:
Selective breeding of crop plants is done mainly to:
After pollination, which part of the plant develops into the structure that carries the seeds?
Before selling a seed lot, a company runs a germination test on a sample of 600 canola seeds under controlled laboratory conditions. The test shows that 8% of the seeds fail to germinate. How many of the 600 seeds in the test germinate?
Which part of a plant takes in water and minerals from the soil?
Crop rotation means growing a different crop in the same field each year. Why do farmers do it?
Which of these does a plant need in order to grow well? Select all that apply.
Use the table. A farmer wants to plant whichever of these three crops produces the most fibre per hectare. Which should they choose?