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Tulips

Bulb Quiz

These foods are all geophytes - can you match them with the kind of storage type they are?

 

BULB

CORM

RHIZOME/
TUBER

TUBEROUS ROOT

HYPOCOTYL

onion

         

sweet potato

         

carrot

         

kohlerabi

         

Jerusalem artichoke

         

garlic

         

potato

         

beet

         

alfalfa sprout

         

Teacher Tip
Provide groups of students with samples of each of these geophytes- a grocery store trip should provide the samples. Allow students to explore each storage organ, examining and dissecting it, then noting differences and similarities in journals before taking the Bulb Quiz.

Discuss your conclusions, supporting your answers with a research trip to the media center. How many did they correctly label?

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