Fall Sports
This sport uses a brown oval ball and the Bay Area’s NFL team plays it every fall.
What is football?
This orange food becomes pie.
What are pumpkins?
Some trees leaves leaves change color in fall because this green stuff fades away.
What is chlorophyll?
These birds fly south for the winter in a V-shape.
What are geese?
According to the meteorlogical calendar, this date marks the last day of fall.
What is November 30th?
Kids all over the Bay Area play this sport in fall where you kick a round ball into a goal.
What is soccer?
This drink is made from apples
What is apple cider?
A nut from this tree is called an acorn.
What is an oak tree?
This animal buries acorns and nuts to prepare for winter.
What is a squirrel?
Wind in fall helps leaves do this.
What is fall off the trees?
Many families go on these walks in fall, especially in Golden Gate Park or the Marin Headlands.
What is a hike?
This is a bird that many people eat at Thanksgiving.
What is a turkey?
These type of tree stay green all year.
What is an evergreen tree?
This animal might retreat to its den to hibernate.
What is a bear?
This is the more common name for the aurora borealis, natural light displays that sometime appear at dark and are often at their peak in November.
What are the Northern Lights?
When the waves are good in fall, athletes put on wetsuits and do this chilly ocean sport at Ocean Beach.
What is surfing?
This is the name of a category of vegetables that grow underground.
What is a root vegetable?
This is a word for trees that lose their leaves in fall.
What are deciduous trees?
This type of butterfly might migrate over 3,000 miles to Mexico.
What is a monarch butterfly?
These small white drops cover the grass in the cool fall mornings.
What is dew?
You might see rowers practicing this sport early in the morning on the Bay.
What is crew?
This small red food grows in bodies of water called bogs.
What are cranberries?
This is the scientific word for leaves falling off trees
What is abscission?
In the fall this species' young (called pups) begin the dispersal process and leave their family packs.
What are coyotes?
Daylight gets shorter in fall. This is the day when day and night are almost the same length?
What is the equinox?