Autumn Adventures
Harvest Helpers
Weather Wonders
Fall Favorites
Animal Antics
100
What fruit do people pick at orchards during the fall? It's scientific name is Malus Domestica
Apples
100
What do people jump into during the fall after raking them up?
Leaves
100
Gardeners in the Fall bring in some plants and prepare others for the first one of these coatings of ice on the ground, grass, and plants in the overnight and early morning.
Frost
100
Not all pies are sweet! This savory pie has meat and vegetables and is a staple of chilly Fall evening
Chicken Pot Pie
100
What do bears do to prepare for the winter in the fall?
Eat, Put on fat, prepare for hibernation, etc.
200
These gourds are a great source of beta carotene, which gives them their orange color.
Pumpkins
200
Which vegetable is harvested in "ears"?
Corn
200
Which gas do leaves need to make food during the summer, which they stop using as much of in the fall?
Carbon Dioxide
200
Cranberry sauce from a can... so canberrysauce?
200
Which Canadian birds flies south to warmer places for the winter?
Geese
300
This is a painting by Georgia O'Keeffe. It's title is "________ Leaves" using the other word for the season of Fall
Autumn
300
What popular fall fruit can be eaten off the vine, dried out and eaten, made into juice or even used as a dye?
Grapes
300
We use this word for when the day and night are equal length in the early Spring and again at the start of Fall.
A) The Vortex
B) The Equestrians
C) The Equinox
d) The Sequence
C) The Equinox
300
This starchy underground tuber is originally from South America but is associated with Ireland and Europe now, where it grows well and is often a mashed side dish in the Fall.
Potato!
300
Name the behavior exhibited by animals that move around to avoid cold seasons?
A) Migration
B) Cetacious
C) Manifesting
D) Illumination
A) Migration
400
Peasants in Autumn, by Hokusai, captures the daily adventures of these Asian Island people in the Fall as they harvest rice.
The Japanese
400
Which animals harvest pollen in the fall to make and eat honey during the winter?
Bees
400
Why do leaves change color in the fall?
The colder darker weather triggers leaves to stop making chlorophyll, the stuff that makes them green.
400
What kind of nuts are gathered by squirrels and also often used in fall baking?
Walnuts and/or Pecans
400
This animal's hair is used to make paint brushes
Boar / Pig
500
Who's this?
Calvin & Hobbes
500
The Harvestman (a.k.a. Daddy Longlegs) is in this family of animals with spiders, however spiders have two seperate parts while the Harvestman has one fused body.
A) Lobsters
B) Libras
C) Mammals
D) Arachnids
D) Arachnids
500
This is the term for when the night is at its longest and darkest in late December.
The Winter Solstice
500
This newish Fall favorite is a chicken in a duck in a turkey!
Turducken
500
We all love turkey but what the heck is this thing on their beak called?
A) Waddle
B) Snood
C) Wattle
D) Swoosh
B) Snood