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Agriculture
Scavenger Hunt
Go
to each of the following websites, individually or in groups (perhaps
four groups with four questions each), to find out the answers to these
questions. Put your answers on the answer sheet provided. Then try to
solve the mystery phrase using the letters in boxes on the answer sheet.
1.
Cows eat up to _________ times a day!
http://www.moomilk.com/index.htm
[Hint:
Virtual Tour - The Story of Milk
2.A
tomato is an _________ plant because is completes its life cycle in one
growing season.
http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/gpe/gpe.html
[Hint: Great Plant Escape/case 1/ facts/life cycle]
3.
How many farms on PEI?
http://www.statcan.ca/english/agcensus2001/first/regions/farmat.htm#11
[2001
statistics]
4.
The Legend of the Three Sisters tells about the three plants that Aboriginals
planted together. They taught this skill to the pioneers. What are the
three plants?
http://www.projects.yrdsb.edu.on.ca/pioneer/corn.htm
5.
What makes our PEI soil red?
http://www.gov.pe.ca/infopei/onelisting.php3?number=13104
6.
What country does not use cows for meat because it is against their religion?
http://www.uri.org/kids/world_hind.htm
[Hint:
Mouse over on the cow, then go to Basic Beliefs and find out what country
Hinduism started in.]
7.
How much of the world is soil?
http://ltpwww.gsfc.nasa.gov/globe/app_soil/hmsoil.htm
8.
To keep their soil in the best shape possible, one of the things farmers
do is _____________________________.
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/chip/english/farming/tending.htm
9.
What country uses only 100 % pure beef toppings, with no pork toppings
on their pizza?
http://www.pizzafarmok.com/home_page.html
[Hint: Go to Agri-Education and check out ‘Pizza facts’ and ‘World-wide toppings’]
10.
What vegetable is mentioned in the song ‘Prince Edward Island is
Heaven to Me?’
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/island/tune1%20pei.htm
11.
What plants are used to make toothpaste?
http://www.gov.mb.ca/agriculture/wheresagr/
[Hint:
check out ‘Around Town’ section and click on the picture of
the ‘Dentist’s office’]
12.
"Soil is like a thin, living ___________ that covers the land.”
http://school.discovery.com/schooladventures/soil/down_dirty.html
13.
Which type of hay do animals prefer or like best- dried alfalfa or dried
grass?
http://www.kidsfarm.com/crops.htm
[Hint: Check out the ‘Hay’ section.]
14.
Over one hundred years ago, what was the most important sea product that
PEI farmers used as fertilizer on their fields?
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/chip/english/farming/fertile.htm
15.
What kind of fox was first farmed on PEI in 1872
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/chip/english/farming/foxes.htm
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Last updated: March 23, 2005
Compiled by: Elizabeth Tumblin "Special thanks to the students of Grade 3 Ruth Nogler/Glen Gallant at West Royalty Elementary School for helping to fine tune this page".