STUDENT QUESTIONS & ANSWERS: GRADE 1 & 2 Saskatchewan Association of Agricultural Societies and Exhibitions: Potash 1. What is potash used for? Answer: Fertilizer 2. What is fertilizer used for? Answer: Fertilizer is like a food for plants. It is added to the soil to help plants grow bigger and stronger. Electrical 1. When the power goes out why should we use a flashlight instead of candles to help us see? Answer: Using candles can start a fire. Agriculture in the Classroom - SK 1. What grain can be used to make granola bars? Answer: Oats 2. Which seed was the smallest? Answer: Canola or Mustard SK Beef Education 1. What do cattle eat? Answer: Grass, hay, silage, feed quality grains, special formulated rations. Cattle require a diet with a lot of fiber like grass for their digestion to work properly. They do not do well on all grain or high fat diets. 2. Why are cattle called ruminants? Answer: Instead of one compartment to the stomach they have four. Of the four compartments the rumen is the largest section and the main digestive centre. The rumen is filled with billions of tiny microorganisms that can break down grass and other coarse vegetation that animals with one stomach (including humans, chickens and pigs) cannot digest. Ruminant animals do not completely chew the grass or vegetation they eat. The partially chewed grass goes into the large rumen where it is stored and broken down into balls of cud. When the animal has eaten its fill, it will rest and chew its cud. The cud is then swallowed once again where it will pass into the next three compartments to complete the digestive process.
3. What nutrients do beef give us? Answer: In the most basic terms, beef gives us ZIP Zinc, Iron and Protein. Zinc is to support our immune system, Iron for energy and Protein to build healthy tissue. Beef supplies 12 essential nutrients. Beef is an excellent source of protein, niacin, vitamins B6 and B12, phosphorus and zinc. It is also rich in iron, riboflavin, magnesium and potassium. The iron in beef is in a form called heme iron, which the body more readily uses than the iron found in plant foods (e.g. spinach, cereals, legumes) or eggs. Nature Conservancy of Canada 1. Provide two reasons as to why native prairie is so important. Answer: Home for plants and animals (many that have decreasing populations), provide us with food and medicine, regulate climate by storing carbon, prairie contains wetlands that act as filters for our water. 2. In Saskatchewan, 17-21% of native prairie remains. Provide two reasons as to why native prairie is disappearing in Saskatchewan. Answer: Conversion of land for agriculture, urban expansion, industrial development. Turkey Farmers of Saskatchewan 1. What are newly hatched turkeys called? Answer: Newly hatched turkeys are called poults 2. How many days does it take for a turkey egg to hatch? Answer: It takes 28 days for a turkey egg to hatch 3. How soon after hatching are the turkey s poults transported to the farms? Answer: Poults are transported to the farms within 24 hours of being removed from the incubator. 4. What is a male turkey called? Answer: A Tom 5. What is a female turkey called? Answer: A Hen Chicken Farmers of Saskatchewan 1. How long does it take for an egg to hatch? Answer: 21 days
2. What do you call a male chicken? Answer: A Rooster 3. What do you call a female chicken? Answer: A Hen Western College of Veterinary Medicine University of Saskatchewan 1. During a normal birth, a newborn calf will come out: A. Bottom first B. Front feet first C. Back feet first D. Head first Answer: Front feet first (B) 2. What color is colostrum the cow s first milk? A. Blue B. White C. Yellow D. Brown Answer: Yellow (C) Saskatchewan Egg Producers 1. What s the difference between brown and white eggs? Answer: The difference between brown and white eggs is the hen! Brown eggs come from brown-feathered hens and white eggs come from white-feathered hens. Nutritionally and taste wise, brown eggs are exactly the same as white eggs! 2. How are eggs measured? Answer: In Canada, all Grade A eggs are categorized by weight, not size or shape 3. Why is the color of some egg yolks darker than others? Answer: Egg yolk color can range from pale yellow to deep orange. This is because the hen s diet affects the color of yolk! A wheat based diet will produce a pale colored yolk, while a corn- based diet will produce a darker colored yolk.
Saskatchewan Sheep Development Board 1. Mother sheep, called ewes, can give birth to one, two, or three babies, sometimes even four or five! What is a baby sheep called? Answer: A lamb Regina & District Bee Club 1. Why do flowers need bees? Answer: To move pollen between flowers to make seeds and fruit 2. Why do bees need flowers? Answer: As a food source of both nectar (carbohydrates) and pollen (protein) 3. Name one difference between bees and wasps. Answer: Bees have hairy bodies to help them pick up and transport pollen. Wasps do not have hair bodies. Bees collect pollen as their protein source, while wasps do not. Wasps kill other insects or scavenge on dead insects/ animals for when they sting, causing the bee to die; wasps have a smooth, re-useable stinger that does not remain in your skin when they sting. Saskatchewan Horse Federation 1. What color of horse has a reddish-brown body with black mane, tail and lower legs? Answer: Bay 2. What color of horse gradually becomes lighter as it gets older? Answer: Grey horses are born any color such as bay, black or chestnut. As they grow their coat gradually gets lighter with age. A foal will never be born grey! 3. Name 5 parts of the horse. Answer: Mane, tail, forelock, ears, muzzle, neck, withers, knee, hock, fetlock, hoof Prairie Conservation Action Plan 1. Why do we have grasses on the prairies, instead of forests? Answer: The amount of rain we get, plus the temperature; as well as soils are support for grasses not forests.
2. What are three types of native prairie in Saskatchewan? Answer: Short grass, mixed grass, and tall grass.