Farming in Jamaica | Geography | Quizalize & Oak National Academy

Starter quiz

Where are crops grown?
- in the UK ✓
- in Jamaica ✓
- in Antarctica
A ______ is a person who grows and harvests crops or rears animals for food or raw materials.
- Father
- Farmer ✓
- Pharmacist
What is the imaginary line encircling Earth at 0° latitude and is an equal distance from the North Pole and the South Pole?
- Tropic of Cancer
- Antarctic Circle
- Equator ✓
How many different crops are grown in one plantation?
- 1 ✓
- 2
- 3
Match the definitions
- Weather
  
  ⇔
  
  the day-to-day condition of the atmosphere ✓
- Climate
  
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  Climate is an average of weather conditions over more than 30 years ✓
- Season
  
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  four times of year that have different weather ✓
Which type of weather would you not experience in Jamaica?
- Rain ✓
- Wind ✓
- Sun ✓
- Snow

Which is a crop that grows well in Jamaica?
- Sugar cane ✓
- Strawberries
- Broccoli
Bananas grow…
- in a big bunch on the plant ✓
- on a vine that wraps around other trees
- under the ground
How long has sugar been grown in Jamaica?
- Always
- 100 years
- More than 500 years ✓
What can we use to help write questions?
- Question page
- Question mark
- Question grid ✓
Where can people grow their own vegetables in Jamaica?
- Homes ✓
- Gardens ✓
- Plantations
What is this vegetable, commonly grown in Jamaica?
- Ham
- Yam ✓
- Potato

We grow all the food we eat in the UK.

We import lots of the food we eat. Bananas, for example, can be imported from Jamaica.

Crops - A crop is a plant that is grown in large quantities.
Climate - Climate is an average of weather conditions (e.g. rain, sun, wind) in a place taken over a long period of time (usually 30 years or more).
Equator - The Equator is an imaginary line encircling Earth at 0° latitude and is an equal distance from the North Pole and the South Pole.
Plantation - A plantation is an area of land on which one kind of crop is grown, e.g. trees for wood.