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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

Plants carry out the process of ________________ to transform ________compounds


into organic ones. The plants use __________ __________, _________________ and
energy from the ________ to form __________________ and release oxygen. The word
equation for the process is:
___________ ____________ + ____________

...

____________ + 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.

2. Complete the concept map.

PLANT NUTRIENT

Micronutrient

Macronutrient

Definition:

Definition:

Example of elements

Example of elements
(i)

(i)

(ii)

(ii)

(iii)

(iii)

(iv)

(iv)

3. Match the mineral elements with its function.


Calcium

Needed for cell division, development


and formation of roots

Phosphorus

Component of chlorophyll

Potassium

Synthesis of protein and nucleic acid.

Magnesium

Needed for synthesis of nucleic acids,


proteins, hormones and chlorophyll

Nitrogen
Needed to form cell wall and for
growth

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