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You will need to grow your own food on Mars: you will need to be a farmer!
But your farm is unlikely to look like most of the farms in Wales! What will it be like?
Try working out the answers to the following questions before clicking on the 'Show Answer' buttons – how many did you get right?
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Your Martian farm might look something like the great glasshouse at the National Botanic Garden of Wales.
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View Practical >You will start off your farming of plants by planting seeds. If conditions are right, the seeds germinate, and plants start to grow.
Important Plant Parts
In this activity you will complete a paragraph explaining the jobs of the main parts of a plant. Fill in the gaps by typing in the correct word from the list:
NASA/KSC
The upper, green, part of a plant is called a . Leaves will grow from this, and their job is to make . To do this, the plant needs to take in the gas .
The lower, pale, parts of a plant are called . One of their jobs is to take in the from the soil, and this will travel to the leaves to help them make food.