Apple
Vocabulary
Vocabulary
Apples belong to this food group.
What is fruit?
The outside of the apple that gives each one its' color.
What is the skin?
Apples are sometimes referred to as "nature's toothbrush" because they do this.
What is clean your teeth and freshen your breath.
My mom always says, "An apple a day keeps this doctor away!"; she means:
Eating healthy will keep you from getting sick and needing to go to the doctor.
The colonists brought apple seeds and seedlings to the new world.
What is a synonym for colonists in this sentence?
What are settlers?
Apple trees grow in this.
What is an orchard?
This part attaches an apple to a tree.
What is the stem?
Because apples are 25% air, they do this in water.
What is float?
John has many grandchildren but Amy, his only granddaughter is the "apple of his eye"; that means Amy is...
What is special, his favorite.
Apples are a common fruit.
A synonym for common in this sentence is:
What is typical, usual, seen in many places.
A tiny tree, including apple trees are called:
What is a seedling?
The center of an apple; the part you throw away when you are done eating it.
What is the core?
Apples are loaded with many nutrients and help to prevent many __________.
What are diseases/illnesses/cancer?
Bobby keeps his room in "apple pie order" and gets really upset if somebody messes it up; Bobby's room is...
What is organized, neat, clean.
There are thousands of varieties of apples.
A synonym for varieties in this sentence is:
What is types, kinds?
There are many kinds of apples, for example, Gala, Macintosh and Empire are a few ________.
What is variety/varieties?
The white part of the inside of the apple that you eat is called this.
What is the flesh?
The fruit of the apple actually grows from this part that we see during the spring.
What is the blossom?
Because Tommy was talking in class we all got detention! My dad always says: "One bad apple can spoil the whole bunch". He means...
That one person can be a bad influence or can get everybody in trouble.
Legend has it that Johnny Appleseed planted thousands of apple trees from Massachusetts to Indiana.
A synonym for legend is:
What is story, tale?
Because apples grow in many countries around the world, we consider them very typical, usual or this.
What is common?
The center of the apple where the seeds are.
What is the core?
This basket that often holds apples is actually a measurement of about 8 dry gallons.
What is a bushel?
I am really looking forward to my visit to the "Big Apple"; where am I going?
The "Big Apple" is a nickname for New York City.
During the winter, apple trees are dormant.
A synonym for dormant is:
What is sleeping, not active.