Specialty Crop Ag Mag - Vocabulary

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1 Name Today s ate Specialty rop g Mag - Vocabulary irections: Read each item. hoose the word that would best complete the sentence. 1 2 n is a place where colonies of bees and bee hives are kept. The word means the crop or yield of one growing season. Farm Hive piary Orchard unch Harvest cre Organic 3 4 dding nutrients to the soil to improve the growing ability is called. Removing dead or unwanted parts of a plant or tree is called. Irrigating Pollinating Fertilizing Irrigating Pollinating Fertilizing Illinois griculture in the lassroom

2 Name Today s ate Field Orchard Row Forest Specialty rop g Mag - Vocabulary irections: Read each item. hoose the word that would best complete the sentence. 5 6 (n) is an area of land devoted to growing fruit or nut trees. rops need water. The farmer needs to supply the crop with water by means of ditches, pipes, or streams in a process called. Fertilization Pollination Irrigation 7 8 means to fertilize by transferring pollen. Some farmers choose to raise plants which means using no manufactured pesticides. Fertilization Pollination Irrigation Organic cre Harvest piary Illinois griculture in the lassroom

3 Name Today s ate Specialty rop g Mag - Math - Finding Volume To find volume, use the following rule: Volume = length x width x height 1 farmer builds a barn 15 feet tall, 30 feet wide, and 50 feet long. What is the volume of the barn? 2 greenhouse that is 17 feet tall, 20 feet wide, and 20 feet long is built for a school ag program. What is the volume of the greenhouse? 95 feet feet 3 22,500 feet 3 36,500 feet 3 57 feet feet 3 21,300 feet 3 68,800 feet 3 3 If a machine shed has a volume of 24,000 feet 3 and the length is 30 ft and the height is 20 ft, what is the width of the machine shed? 40 feet 60 feet 100 feet 20 feet 4 In a lifetime, the average merican will consume 2 football fields of wheat. If wheat grows 4 feet tall and a football field is 360 feet long and 160 feet wide, what is the volume of one field of wheat? 460,800 feet 3 230,400 feet 3 57,600 feet 3 128,400 feet 3 Illinois griculture in the lassroom

4 Name Today s ate Specialty rop g Mag - Math - Finding Volume To find volume, use the following rule: Volume = length x width x height 5 Flats for drying herbs have a volume of inches 3. If the flats are 36 inches wide and 60 inches long, how many inches tall are the flats? 6 box in an apiary for the bees is 3 feet wide, 4 feet long, and 3 feet tall. What is the volume of the box? 3 inches 4 inches 5 inches 6 inches 12 feet 3 9 feet 3 36 feet 3 10 feet 3 7 display stand at the Farmer s Market is 4 feet wide, 8 feet long, and 4 feet tall. What is the volume of the display stand? 8 The volume of a wagon at the pumpkin patch is 4800 in 3. If the wagon is 5 inches tall and 48 inches long, how wide is the wagon? 16 feet feet 3 48 feet feet 3 20 inches 53 inches 100 inches 40 inches Illinois griculture in the lassroom

5 Specialty rop g Mag - Reading Passage Hooray for eekeeping! y obbie Kalman ees do not make honey for money. They make honey to feed themselves. To make honey, forager bees collect nectar, a sweet liquid found in flowers. The forager bee sticks out her long tongue and sucks up the nectar. She stores the nectar in a special stomach called the honey stomach. When the forager bee s honey stomach is full, she flies back to the hive. She passes the nectar to a house bee, who swallows it. In the house bee s honey stomach, chemicals called enzymes are added to the nectar. The nectar slowly turns into a drop of honey, which the house bee puts into a comb cell. She fans the honey with her wings to dry up any extra water. When the cell is full of honey, the bee closes it with a cap of wax. ees make a lot more honey than they need. The beekeeper takes the extra honey to sell. He or she must be careful not to take too much, or the bees will starve. 1 Why do bees make honey? 2 What is nectar? For us to eat. To feed themselves. To get rid of the extra weight to make it easier to fly. For beekeepers to sell. The juice of a nectarine. chemical added to honey. type of wax. sweet liquid found in flowers. Illinois griculture in the lassroom

6 Name Today s ate Specialty rop g Mag - Reading Passage 3 4 What is the next step after the nectar is sucked up by the forager takes too much honey from the What will happen if the beekeeper bee? bees? She spits it back out. It is turned into honey. It is stored in the forager bee s honey stomach. It is transferred to another flower. The bees will starve. The bees will freeze. The bees will become angry and sting the beekeeper. Nothing. 5 6 What happens to the nectar in the Why does the house bee fan the stomach of the house bee? honey with her wings? It is turned into wax. It is mixed with enzymes and turned into honey. It is sucked up by the forager bee. It is transferred to another To dry up extra water. To keep the honey warm. To harden the wax. To keep the honey clean. Extended Response Pollination is necessary for plants to grow. iscuss how bees impact the growth of plants and aid in the pollination process. e sure to include your own experiences with growing plants. Illinois griculture in the lassroom