61 Fun Plant Trivia Questions and Answers for Kids
Entertain and educate your kids with these specially created plant trivia questions. This trivia is created with a mixture of easy and hard trivia to keep the interest of the kid in the game till the end.
The questions are designed to be short and easy for kids to understand. Your kids will certainly be happier and wiser after playing this trivia game.
1. The part that anchors the plant to the ground is called?
Answer: root
2. Which plant is the fastest growing plant?
Answer: Bamboo
3. The process by which plants convert carbon dioxide, water, and minerals into food when they use energy from sunlight is called?
Answer: photosynthesis.
4. Is cucumber a vegetable?
Answer: No, it is a fruit
5. Which country does sweet potato come from?
Answer: Peru
6. The largest flower in the world is called?
Answer: Rafflesia arnoldii
7. Which tree are cricket bats mainly made from?
Answer: Willow trees
8. Which acid do onions contain that causes tears when we cut them?
Answer: sulphuric acid
9. The part of a plant root that it uses to absorb minerals and water is called?
Answer: root hair
10. The only fruit that has seeds on the outside is?
Answer: Strawberries
11. Is the tomato a fruit or vegetable?
Answer: fruit
12. The tallest tree in the world is?
Answer: California redwoods
13. What is the name of the smallest flowering plant?
Answer: Watermeal
14. What is the name of the world’s largest carnivorous plant?
Answer: Nepenthes rajah
15. Can tree rings be used to determine the tree’s age?
Answer: Yes
16. How old is the oldest tree on earth?
Answer: over 5000 years old.
17. 90% of the food human eat come from how many plants?
Answer: 30
18. What is a cluster of bananas called?
Answer: a hand
19. Cabbage contains 91% of what?
Answer: water
20. Which country is named after a tree?
Answer: Brazil
21. Which tree is called “the tree of life”?
Answer: baobab tree
22. The first botanical garden opened in which year?
Answer: 1730
23. What is the scientific method of determining the age of a tree is called?
Answer: dendrochronology
24. How many percentages of planets on earth are in the ocean?
Answer: 85%
25. Are apples and pears part of the rose family?
Answer: Yes
26. What is the name of the smallest tree?
Answer: dwarf willow
27. What is the name of the tallest flower?
Answer: corpse flower
28. Are Mushrooms classified as plants?
Answer: No, they belong to the kingdom Fungi.
29. Where is the poison garden located?
Answer: Alnwick Castle in Northumberland, England.
30. What is the name of the largest seed on earth?
Answer: coco-de-mer
31. The world’s smallest seeds are?
Answer: orchids
32. Are Peanuts, nuts, or legumes?
Answer: legumes
33. What is the scientific name for flowering plants?
Answer: Angiosperm.
34. How many years does it take an orange tree to produce fruit?
Answer: Three to five years
35. Where did apple originate from?
Answer: Central Asia
36. leaves and roots are part of the 3 main parts of a plant, what is the last part?
Answer: Stem
37. Plants could be divided into two main groups, Flowering plants, and ________?
Answer: non-flowering plants
38. The male part of a flower is called what?
Answer: Stamen
39. Between Palm, sugarcane, and Bamboo. Which is the main food of pandas?
Answer: Bamboo
40. Paper was originally made from which plant?
Answer: Papyrus
41. Which substances give plant leaves their green color?
Answer: Chlorophyll
42. What can cause the leaves of a plant are curl inward and wilt?
Answer: Lack of water
43. The scientific study of plant life is termed?
Answer: Botany
44. The most produced grain plant in the world currently is?
Answer: Corn
45. Plants that do not have seed produce through which process?
Answer: Through spores
46. Which flower is a national flower of England?
Answer: Rose
47. The pineapple plants originated from which continent?
Answer: South America
48. What’s the most popular fruit on earth?
Answer: tomato
49. What is the name of the first vegetable that was grown in space?
Answer: potatoes
50. Do kiwi fruits contain more vitamin C than oranges?
Answer: Yes
51. What’s the world’s most expensive fruit?
Answer: Yubari melon
52. How many seeds does a strawberry have?
Answer: About 200
54. Between Potatoes and bananas, which contains more potassium?
Answer: Potatoes
55. Dried grapes are commonly known as what?
Answer: Raisins.
56. Which fruit contains the highest percentage of water?
Answer: Tomato
57. Which fruit is known as a symbol of fertility and death in Ancient Greek mythology?
Answer: Pomegranate (Indian apple)
58. Fruits develop from which part of a plant?
Answer: Flower
59. What is the name of a red fruit that Europeans believe to be poisonous for around 200 years?
Answer: Tomato
60. “Williams” and “Conference” are kinds of which type of fruit?
Answer: Pears
61. The dragon fruit originated from where?
Answer: Central and South America
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