Pumpkins
Pumpkins are a type of
a. tomato
b. gourd
c. grain
d. herb
What is b. gourd.
Which season comes before autumn?
A. Winter
B. Spring
C. Summer
What is Summer.
This fall activity involves carving this into a silly face or shape.
What is pumpkin carving.
What is the first month of fall?
What is September.
If money really did grow on trees, what would be everyone's favorite season?
What is fall!
What is a carved pumpkin called?
What is a Jack-O-Latern!
Which of the following plants loses their leaves during autumn?
A. Oaks
B. Conifers
C. Palm trees
A. Oaks
What else do oak trees loose in the fall?
This fall activity involves getting lost in a field of corn.
What is corn maze.
What month is the last month of fall.
What is December.
What do you get when you drop a pumpkin?
What is squash!
True or False.
All parts of the pumpkin except for the stem are edible.
True!
Which of the following facts is NOT true about autumn?
A. Temperatures begin to decrease
B. Days start to get shorter
C. The wind stops blowing
What is C. The wind does not stop blowing in autumn, it actually gets slightly windier.
This fall activity involves going to an orchard an picking these tasty fruits which are in season all the way through November.
What is apple picking.
What month is most known for the change of leaves and Halloween?
What is Ocotber.
What did one leaf say to another?
True or False.
The largest pumpkin ever grown weighed over 2,000 pounds?
What is True.
The largest pumpkin ever recorded weighed in at 2,624.6pounds on October 9, 2016, in Germany. The largest pumpkin on record in the United States weighed in at 2,363 in Moon Bay California on October 10th, 2017.
Which species of butterfly migrates from North America to the West or South during autumn?
A. Monarch
B. Orange-tip
C. Painted lady
What is A. Monarch.
This sport is most popular this time of the year and involves passing the pigskin!
What is football!
What month is the last full month of fall?
What is November.
Why do birds fly south in the fall?
What is because it is too far to walk!
True or False
Pumpkins originated in Asia.
False.
Scientists believe that pumpkins originated in North America about 9000 years ago. The oldest pumpkin seeds have been found in Mexico and date back to somewhere between 7000-5550 B.C.. Pumpkins (along with other forms of squash) were a historically important food staple among Native Americans
Which agricultural activity is mainly associated with autumn?
A. Planting
B. Seeding
C. Harvesting
What is C. Harvesting.
The people who travel to our area to see the leaves are called leaf __________.
Who are the leaf peepers.
In what fall month was Columbus Day now Indigenous Peoples Day celebrated?
What is October.
What do you use to mend a jack-o-latern?
What is a pumpkin patch.