Farming
The top three U.S. farm products.
What are cattle, corn and soybeans?
Removes pollen from the atmosphere, which improves air quality and human health.
What are trees?
To reap, gather and store what has been grown.
What is harvesting?
True or False:
Daylight savings time begins in the fall.
False. Daylight savings time begins in March and ends in November.
This popular fall candy was originally called "chicken feed".
What is candy corn?
The world's largest beef producer.
What is the United States?
The rings of a tree are used for:
Telling the age of a tree.
The two kinds of farmland/types of agriculture:
What are cropland and pastureland?
What are the fall months?
Most of September, all of October and November and part of December.
The pumpkin capital of the world is in this country.
What is the United States?
Food that is grown and processed using no synthetic fertilizers of pesticides.
What is organically grown?
Trees absorb carbon dioxide, removing and storing the carbon while releasing _____ back into the air.
What is oxygen?
Not all plants ripen in the fall, but the ones that we most commonly associate with fall include:
What are, pumpkins, turnips, squash, zucchini, beets, eggplant, celery, apples, cranberries, grapes, pears and pomegranates?
The end of summer into early autumn the warmer ocean surface temperatures create ideal conditions for these major storms.
What are hurricanes?
Early autumn is peak hurricane season.
Pumpkins are grown all over the world. In fact, they are grown on every continent except:
What is Antarctica?
The U.S. grows nearly three quarters of all _____ in the world, that are used to make a popular side during Thanksgiving. It is also used to make a popular juice.
What are cranberries?
Indiana's state tree.
What are Tulip Trees?
In this step of the harvesting process, the food grains, such as wheat, are separated from the rest of the cut crop.
What is threshing?
The earliest known name for the 3rd season of the year, that we are currently in.
What is the Harvest?
Wool from sheep can be used to make this material that can be used in crafts and has many purposes.
What is yarn?
One pound of wool can make 10 miles of yarn!
The country that has the most dairy cows.
What is India?
A green pigment, present in all green plants that is responsible for the absorption of light to provide energy for photosynthesis.
What is chlorophyll?
The different methods of harvesting.
What is manual harvesting, harvesting with hand tools and harvesting with machinery?
This fun fall game originated in the U.K. as a dating technique from as early as the 14th century to the 1800's.
What is bobbing for apples?
This school supply and craft item is made from soybean oil.
What are crayons?
One acre of soybeans can produce 82,368 crayons!