Plant Nutrients Quiz

What are the three free plant nutrients, and why are they free to plants?

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What are the three major nutrients that humans can supply to plants?

WHERE does each of them help plant growth?

With magnets, opposites attract. Negative charges are attracted to positive charges.

Name 5 nutrients that have a positive charge, and 5 nutrients that have a negative charge.

Acidic soil has a low pH, and is loaded with positive charges.

List 6 nutrients that get bound up in acidic soil and cannot be accessed by plants.

Explain the barrel analogy from the slides.

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When crops are removed from the land, nutrients go with them.

What is the difference between how mineral fertilizer and fertilizer from organic sources such as cow manure work?

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