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Exercise 4
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Chapter 2
Exercise 4
Learning Area: Nutrition and Food Production
Learning Objective: Analysing the nutrient requirements of plants.
1. Fill in the blanks with suitable answers from the box below. The answers maybe use more than
once.
Glucose
Hydrogen
oxygen
light
chlorophyll
inorganic
sun
photosynthesis
transpiration
nitrogen
kinetic
Starch
water
carbon dioxide
...
____________ + oxygen
...
Only plants with _________________ can carry out _____________________. The
______________ enable the plants to absorb ___________ energy from the sun to break
__________ molecules into ___________ and ___________ atoms. _______________
combine with ______________ ______________ to form _________________ needed by the
plant.
PLANT NUTRIENT
Micronutrient
Macronutrient
Definition:
Definition:
Example of elements
Example of elements
(i)
(i)
(ii)
(ii)
(iii)
(iii)
(iv)
(iv)
Phosphorus
Component of chlorophyll
Potassium
Magnesium
Nitrogen
Needed to form cell wall and for
growth