Starter quiz
- Where are crops grown?
- in the UK ✓
- in Jamaica ✓
- in Antarctica
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- A ______ is a person who grows and harvests crops or rears animals for food or raw materials.
- Father
- Farmer ✓
- Pharmacist
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- 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 ✓
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- How many different crops are grown in one plantation?
- 1 ✓
- 2
- 3
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- Match the definitions
- Weather⇔the day-to-day condition of the atmosphere ✓
- Climate⇔Climate is an average of weather conditions over more than 30 years ✓
- Season⇔four times of year that have different weather ✓
- Which type of weather would you not experience in Jamaica?
- Rain ✓
- Wind ✓
- Sun ✓
- Snow
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Exit quiz
- 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
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- How long has sugar been grown in Jamaica?
- Always
- 100 years
- More than 500 years ✓
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- What can we use to help write questions?
- Question page
- Question mark
- Question grid ✓
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- Where can people grow their own vegetables in Jamaica?
- Homes ✓
- Gardens ✓
- Plantations
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What is this vegetable, commonly grown in Jamaica?- Ham
- Yam ✓
- Potato
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Lesson Details
Key learning points
- Different crops are suited to different climates.
- Questions are a useful way to learn more about farming in Jamaica.
- We are connected to different countries by the food we eat.
- Bananas, sugar, yams, peppers, tomatoes and peas all grow in Jamaica.
Common misconception
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.
Keywords
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.
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