Fall Holidays
This holiday is celebrated October 31 and involves dressing up in costumes
What is Halloween
This giant, circular machine is used by modern farmers to cut, thresh, and clean grain crops all at once.
What is Combine Harvester
This is the traditional name for a pumpkin that has been carved with a spooky or funny face and lit up with a candle.
What is Jack-o-lantern
This sweet, spiced liquid is made from pressed apples and is a favorite warm drink on chilly fall days.
What is Apple Cider
This 10-letter word describes when animals, like birds, fly south to warmer places for the winter.
What is Migration
American holiday is celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November and features a massive feast.
What is Thanksgiving
300 Points: Farmers build these human-shaped figures out of old clothes and straw to scare crows away from their ripening crops.
What is a Scarecrow
While we use them for decoration and pies, scientifically, a pumpkin is actually a giant version of this healthy food category.
What is Fruit (or Squash)
To eat this sticky fall treat, you have to push a stick into an apple and dip it into a melted, sugary brown sauce.
What is Carmel Apple (or Candy Apple)
This is the deep sleep some animals enter during the winter to save energy, though they start preparing for it in the fall.
What is Hibernation
This is the name of the ship that brought the Pilgrims to America in the fall of 1620.
What is the Mayflower
This classic fall farm attraction is a giant puzzle made by cutting pathways through a tall field of grain.
What is a Corn Maze
Pumpkins don't grow on trees or bushes; they grow along the ground on these long, climbing plant structures.
What is Vine.
Botanists categorize apples as this specific type of plant part because they grow from flowers and contain seeds.
What is Fruit
Trees that lose their leaves every autumn are called this, a word that comes from a Latin root meaning "to fall."
What is Deciduous.
Celebrated on November 11th, this holiday honors all the brave men and women who have served in the United States military.
What is Veteran's Day
This word used in England for the season of autumn originally comes from an old word that means "the time for gathering crops."
What is Harvest
Pumpkin seeds are packed with nutrients and grow inside the pumpkin attached to this messy, stringy part.
What is Pulp
This traditional, splashy party game challenges players to grab floating apples from a tub of water using only their teeth.
What is Bobbing for Apples.
This is the date of the official first day of the fall.
What is September 22.
In Mexico, this celebration involves setting an altar up in the home with photos, food, candles, and marigolds to welcome back the souls of deceased loved ones.
This giant, colorful horn-shaped basket is overflowing with fall fruits and vegetables, and is also known as the "horn of plenty."
What is Cornucopia
This is the name of the state that grows the most pumpkins in the United States every year.
What is Illinois.
John Chapman is the name of a famous American folk hero who traveled the country planting apple trees. What is he more commonly known as.
What is Johnny Appleseed
This is the green pigment in leaves that disappears in the fall, allowing other beautiful colors to show through.
What is Chlorophyll