Fruits
Veggies
Michigan
Plants
Mrs. Colby
100

Because they are 92% water and have a tough, thick skin, early explorers used this giant summer fruit as natural water bottles on long trips.

Watermelon 

100

Which vegetable can make you cry when you cut it?

Onion

100

In the fall, Michiganders love to visit orchards to pick this crunchy fruit, get lost in corn mazes, and drink cider.

Apples

100

Name three things a plant needs to survive

Air

Dirt/Soil

Water

Sunlight 

100

How do you properly spell my name?

a. Mrs. Kobe

b. Mrs. Colbie

c. Mrs. Colby

d. Mrs. Kolby

c. Mrs. Colby

200

Instead of hanging down from branches like most fruits, these yellow fruits actually grow pointing upward toward the sun in giant bunches

Bananas

200

Which vegetable is known as “baby trees”?

Broccoli 

200

Michigan is a top producer of this tiny, round, sweet blue fruit that grows on bushes.

Blueberries

200

Gardeners love this little red beetle with black spots because it acts like a tiny bodyguard, eating the bad pests that ruin crops.

Ladybug

200

Is Mrs. Colby married? Yes or No

Yes! 

300

This prickly tropical fruit has a "crown" on top, and it takes almost two whole years for a plant to grow just one of them

Pineapple

300

Nature loves math! Every single ear of this yellow summer vegetable always grows with an even number of rows—usually exactly 16 rows of kernels

Corn 

300

Michigan ranks first in the nation for growing this crisp green vegetable that can be turned into a pickle. 

Cucumber

300

True or False: 

Some plants are carnivorous and eat bugs.

True (venus fly trap)

300

When Mrs. Colby was your age she played soccer and had a birthday party at the same place you had your fieldtrip this summer, name that place

High Velocity 

400

Scientifically, in order for something from a plant to be called a fruit, it must contain these.

Seeds

400

In 1995, this popular underground veggie made history by becoming the very first vegetable ever grown in outer space aboard a NASA space shuttle.

Potato

400

This brown, underground vegetable is Michigan's biggest vegetable crop

Potato

400

 Which part of the plant makes food using sunlight? 

a. root

b. stem

c. leaves

d. flower

c. leaves

400

How old is Mrs. Colby? 

29

500

A dried grape is a rasin, a dried plum is a...

Prune 

500

If farmers don't harvest this prickly green vegetable to eat its delicious "heart," the plant will eventually open up and bloom into a giant, beautiful, bright purple flower!

Artichoke 

500

Traverse City, Michigan is famous for holding a giant summer festival celebrating this small, red, tart fruit.

Cherry

500

Which part of the carrot is most commonly eaten?

a. stem

b. root

c. leaf

d. flower

b. root

500

What is Mrs. Colby's main job at Haigh

a. Speech therapist 

b. Occupational therapist

c. Physical Therapist

b. Occupational therapist