The Gnome's Green Plot: How plants make food comic

The Gnome's Green Plot

Plants make food with air, water, sunshine. But what if they can't breathe?

Starring Momo
How plants make food · Class 5 and up

Sunshine City Garden

Momo: Why are the flowers looking so pale today?

Queen Quibble: Ha! Roofed the garden; plants can’t photosynthesize now!

Momo: If they can’t make their own food, how will they grow?

Plants make food with sunlight, water, and air

Plants use light, water, air

Sunlight gives energy to grow

Water helps plants drink

Momo: Plants make food with sunlight, water, and air. Like magic!

Queen Quibble: Plants make food with sunlight, water, and air. No air? No food!

Momo: Plants need sunlight to grow. No sunlight? They fade, stop growing.

Sunlight = energy to grow

Water = drink for plants

Air = magic helper

Plants make food like this

Sun gives plant light

Water quenches plant thirst

Air helps food process

Momo: Plants need sun to make food. They take sunlight, water, and air to grow and make food.

Your turn, hero!

Queen Quibble♥♥♥

Plants need sun to grow. Why?

energy. Sunlight gives plants energy to make their own food.

Queen Quibble: And now they turn pale and stop growing. Perfect!

Plants turn pale without?

sun. Plants turn pale without sunlight, which they need to make food.

The final battle

Queen Quibble♥♥♥

Plants make food with air. How?

carbon dioxide. Plants use carbon dioxide from the air to make food through photosynthesis.

Queen Quibble: Hmph! Plant more gnomes, but they won't grow!

Momo: I know a way to help them. Let’s get a ladder and take the roof off!

The garden starts to turn green again. But what about the gnome’s next trick?

The End?

Remember

Next time, the gnomes try to steal the sunshine. Can Momo stop them?

A comic book about how plants make food. Follow Momo, learn the idea, and answer three questions to beat Queen Quibble.

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