Q. What is the name of this fruit or vegetable?
Options: Eggplant · Lemon · Cucumber · Apple
Answer: Apple
A red, crunchy apple! It grows on a tree.
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Q. Which vegetable do you dig up out of the ground?
Options: Potato · Tomato · Carrot · Sweet potato
Answer: Potato
You dig potatoes out of the ground! Tomatoes grow on a stem.
Q. Which fruit grows on a tree?
Options: Watermelon · Apple · Persimmon · Pear
Answer: Apple
Apples grow on apple trees! Watermelons grow on a vine along the ground.
Q. Which of these does NOT grow underground?
Options: Carrot · Sweet potato · Radish · Cucumber
Answer: Cucumber
The cucumber is a fruit vegetable that grows on a vine.
Q. Where do grapes grow?
Options: On a vine · Underground · In cracks in rocks · Underwater
Answer: On a vine
Grapes hang in bunches on a vine.
Q. Where does the rice plant grow?
Options: In the sea · In sandy desert · Up in trees · In a flooded paddy field
Answer: In a flooded paddy field
Rice grows in a paddy field full of water.
Q. Which of these is NOT a vegetable where we eat the root?
Options: Burdock · Radish · Napa cabbage · Carrot
Answer: Napa cabbage
Napa cabbage. We eat the underground roots of radish, carrot, and sweet potato, but with napa cabbage we eat layer upon layer of leaves.
Q. How do bananas grow?
Options: You dig them up · In bunches on a giant grass · One at a time on a vine · Underwater
Answer: In bunches on a giant grass
The banana 'tree' is really a very big grass!
Q. What do dandelion seeds ride to fly far away?
Options: Water · Birds · Animals · The wind
Answer: The wind
Dandelion seeds float away on the wind.
Q. Which oak tree fruit do squirrels love?
Options: Acorns · Chestnuts · Pine nuts · Walnuts
Answer: Acorns
Acorns are the fruit of oaks — a squirrel's winter food.
Q. What is the most important job a plant's leaves do?
Options: Protecting the roots · Making food from sunlight · Spreading seeds · Storing water
Answer: Making food from sunlight
Leaves make food from sunlight, water, and air (photosynthesis).
Q. Which is NOT a job a plant's roots do?
Options: Storing nutrients · Soaking up water · Carrying pollen · Holding the plant up
Answer: Carrying pollen
Pollen is carried by bees, butterflies, and the wind.
Q. What is special about maple seeds?
Options: They have wings and spin as they fly · They float on water · They burst out like an explosion · They stick to animal fur
Answer: They have wings and spin as they fly
Maple seeds spin like a propeller as they fall.
🥕 Q. Which part of the plant is a carrot?
Options: The flower · The leaves · The root · The fruit
Answer: The root
The carrot is a root we eat from underground!
🥔 Q. Where do you dig up sweet potatoes and potatoes?
Options: From flowers at the end of a vine · Underwater · Up in trees · Underground
Answer: Underground
You dig them out of the soil!
🥔 Q. Between potato and sweet potato, which one is a changed stem?
Options: The potato · Both are leaves · The sweet potato · Both are roots
Answer: The potato
The potato is an underground stem; the sweet potato is a root!
🥬 Q. Which part of the plant do we eat in napa cabbage and lettuce?
Options: The seeds · The leaves · The fruit · The root
Answer: The leaves
The leaves. With cabbage, lettuce, and spinach we eat leaves; with radish and carrot, roots; with potato, an underground stem.
🥒 Q. Which part of the plant are cucumbers, squash, and eggplants?
Options: Leaves · Flowers · Roots · Fruit
Answer: Fruit
The fruit that grows once the flower has faded!
🍅 Q. Is a tomato a vegetable or a fruit? (As people usually call it)
Options: It's a root · We eat it like a vegetable, but it's a fruit · It's a flower · It's a leaf
Answer: We eat it like a vegetable, but it's a fruit
A vegetable in cooking, a fruit in botany!
🥦 Q. Which part of the plant do we eat in broccoli and cauliflower?
Options: Only the stem · The root · The seeds · The flower (the buds)
Answer: The flower (the buds)
A vegetable where we eat the flower buds!
🫛 Q. Which part of the plant are beans and peas?
Options: Leaves · Seeds (the seeds inside the fruit) · Roots · Flowers
Answer: Seeds (the seeds inside the fruit)
We eat the seeds inside the pod!
🧅 Q. Which part of the plant do we eat in onions and garlic?
Options: The leaf tips · The fruit · The underground bulb · The flower
Answer: The underground bulb
A bulb that swells up underground!
🌽 Q. What are the yellow kernels we eat on corn?
Options: Roots · Leaves · Seeds (grains) · Petals
Answer: Seeds (grains)
Every single kernel of corn is a seed!
🍎 Q. Where do apples grow?
Options: On a tree · Underwater · On a vine · Underground
Answer: On a tree
Hanging all over the apple tree!
🍉 Q. Where does a watermelon grow?
Options: Underground · On a vine crawling along the ground · On a big tree · Underwater
Answer: On a vine crawling along the ground
It grows on a vine stretched across the field!
🍓 Q. Where do strawberries grow?
Options: Underwater · On a big tree · On a low-growing plant (in fields and greenhouses) · Underground
Answer: On a low-growing plant (in fields and greenhouses)
Strawberries grow low, right against the ground!
🍈 Q. Where do Korean melons and other melons grow?
Options: Underground · In the sea · On a big tree · On a vine along the ground
Answer: On a vine along the ground
They grow on a vine, just like watermelons!
🍊 Q. What do we call the group of trees that grow mandarins, oranges, and lemons?
Options: Vegetables · Vines · Grasses · Citrus trees
Answer: Citrus trees
Citrus trees grow in warm places!
🌰 Q. Where do chestnuts grow?
Options: Underground · Underwater · On a vine · On a chestnut tree, inside a prickly shell
Answer: On a chestnut tree, inside a prickly shell
A sweet chestnut inside a prickly burr!
🍓 Q. Which of these does NOT grow on a tree?
Options: Apple · Strawberry · Persimmon · Pear
Answer: Strawberry
The strawberry. Apples, pears, and persimmons grow on trees, but strawberries grow on a low plant against the ground.
🥔 Q. Which of these grows underground?
Options: Potato · Tomato · Cucumber · Grape
Answer: Potato
The potato. It isn't a root but a stem that fattens up underground, which is why it has 'eyes' where sprouts come out.
🍉 Q. What happens if you swallow a watermelon seed?
Options: Most of it passes right through undigested · A watermelon grows in your tummy · It sprouts straight away · Something terrible happens
Answer: Most of it passes right through undigested
Don't worry! Nothing grows in your tummy.
🍎 Q. What is inside the middle of an apple or a pear?
Options: A stone · Honey · Seeds · Only water
Answer: Seeds
Seeds. The apple uses its sweet flesh to call animals in, a clever trick to get its seeds carried far away.
🌾 Q. What do you call sowing seeds in spring and harvesting in summer and autumn?
Options: Farming · Only foraging · Hunting · Fishing
Answer: Farming
Farming takes real care!
🍓 Q. When are strawberries at their tastiest and most common?
Options: Autumn · Spring (greenhouse-grown from winter into spring) · Midsummer · Midwinter, outdoors
Answer: Spring (greenhouse-grown from winter into spring)
These days there are lots from winter into spring!
🍉 Q. When are watermelons and melons at their tastiest?
Options: Early spring · Summer · Late autumn · Winter
Answer: Summer
A cool watermelon in the hot summer!
🍂 Q. When are persimmons, apples, pears, and chestnuts most plentiful?
Options: Spring · Summer · Autumn · Winter
Answer: Autumn
Autumn. All summer the leaves made food and packed it into the fruit, and about now it ripens up full and sweet.
🍊 Q. When are mandarins most plentiful?
Options: Summer · Spring · The rainy season · Winter
Answer: Winter
Winter. Peel one and even the white threads inside are good for you.
🌾 Q. The rice we eat is the fruit (seed) of which plant?
Options: Wheat · Barley · The rice plant · Beans
Answer: The rice plant
The grain of the rice plant, grown in a paddy!
🌾 Q. What is flour made from?
Options: Wheat · Corn · Beans · Rice
Answer: Wheat
Wheat. It's the grain ground up fine, and because the dough turns springy, it becomes bread and noodles.
🥕 Q. Which nutrient explains why carrots are said to be good for your eyes?
Options: Oil · Beta-carotene (vitamin A) · Salt · Sugar
Answer: Beta-carotene (vitamin A)
The goodness inside that orange helps your eyes!
🍋 Q. Which nutrient makes lemons and mandarins sour and good for colds?
Options: Salt · Fat · Sugar · Vitamin C
Answer: Vitamin C
Tangy vitamin C!
🌶️ Q. Which substance makes chili peppers hot?
Options: Capsaicin · Vitamins · Sugar · Salt
Answer: Capsaicin
Capsaicin. It isn't really a taste — it tricks you into feeling 'hot', which is why spicy food makes you sweat.
🧅 Q. Why do your eyes water when you cut an onion?
Options: You're just crying from the spiciness · It's too pretty · You're sad · It gives off something that stings your eyes
Answer: It gives off something that stings your eyes
Something inside the onion stings your eyes!
🍌 Q. How does a banana change color as it ripens?
Options: Red to green · It stays the same · Green, then yellow, then brown spots · Yellow to blue
Answer: Green, then yellow, then brown spots
The riper it gets, the yellower and sweeter!
🍅 Q. What color does a tomato turn when it ripens?
Options: Black · Purple · Blue · Red
Answer: Red
It ripens from green to red!
🥬 Q. Which vegetable is the main one for making kimchi?
Options: Cucumber · Carrot · Napa cabbage · Potato
Answer: Napa cabbage
Napa cabbage. You salt it until it softens, then mix in the seasoning, and as good bacteria do their work, it becomes kimchi.
🌶️ Q. What color does a chili pepper turn as it ripens?
Options: Blue · Black · Only yellow · Red
Answer: Red
A green chili ripens to red!
🚿 Q. Why is it good to wash the fruit and vegetables we eat?
Options: They get sweeter · They get bigger · It removes dirt and pesticides, so they're safe · The color gets prettier
Answer: It removes dirt and pesticides, so they're safe
Wash them clean before you eat!
🪴 Q. Which is NOT needed to grow vegetables in a field?
Options: A television · Sunlight · Soil · Water
Answer: A television
Vegetables need sunlight, water, and soil!
🍓 Q. What are the little bumpy specks on the outside of a strawberry?
Options: Sugar · Seeds · Dust · Water droplets
Answer: Seeds
A strawberry keeps its seeds on the outside!
Q. What is the name of this fruit or vegetable?
Options: Eggplant · Lemon · Cucumber · Apple
Answer: Apple
A red, crunchy apple! It grows on a tree.
Q. What is the name of this fruit or vegetable?
Options: Garlic · Mandarin · Lemon · Banana
Answer: Banana
A long yellow banana! It grows in bunches on a giant grass.
Q. What is the name of this fruit or vegetable?
Options: Persimmon · Mandarin · Banana · Strawberry
Answer: Strawberry
A strawberry, with its seeds on the outside! It grows on a low plant.
Q. What is the name of this fruit or vegetable?
Options: Garlic · Potato · Watermelon · Radish
Answer: Watermelon
Watermelon, the fruit of summer! It grows on a vine.
Q. What is the name of this fruit or vegetable?
Options: Grapes · Onion · Persimmon · Pineapple
Answer: Grapes
Grapes in bunches! They grow on a vine.
Q. What is the name of this fruit or vegetable?
Options: Orange · Chili pepper · Banana · Napa cabbage
Answer: Orange
A sweet and tangy orange! It's full of vitamin C.
Q. What is the name of this fruit or vegetable?
Options: Tomato · Eggplant · Radish · Peach
Answer: Peach
A soft, squishy peach! It's a summer fruit.
Q. What is the name of this fruit or vegetable?
Options: Pumpkin · Pear · Orange · Strawberry
Answer: Pear
A cool, crisp pear! It grows on a tree.
Q. What is the name of this fruit or vegetable?
Options: Korean melon · Lettuce · Persimmon · Sweet potato
Answer: Persimmon
The persimmon, ripening orange in autumn!
Q. What is the name of this fruit or vegetable?
Options: Cucumber · Pineapple · Mandarin · Sweet potato
Answer: Mandarin
A sweet and tangy mandarin, eaten in winter!
Q. What is the name of this fruit or vegetable?
Options: Tomato · Korean melon · Grapes · Mushroom
Answer: Tomato
A red tomato! We eat it like a vegetable, but it's a fruit.
Q. What is the name of this fruit or vegetable?
Options: Lettuce · Sweet potato · Cucumber · Eggplant
Answer: Cucumber
A crunchy, cool cucumber! It's a vine fruit.
Q. What is the name of this fruit or vegetable?
Options: Peach · Cucumber · Sweet potato · Carrot
Answer: Carrot
The carrot, a root we eat from underground! It's good for your eyes.
Q. What is the name of this fruit or vegetable?
Options: Broccoli · Potato · Garlic · Watermelon
Answer: Potato
The potato, dug from underground! It's a changed stem.
Q. What is the name of this fruit or vegetable?
Options: Banana · Sweet potato · Pear · Garlic
Answer: Sweet potato
A sweet sweet potato! We eat the root from underground.
Q. What is the name of this fruit or vegetable?
Options: Pumpkin · Napa cabbage · Strawberry · Korean melon
Answer: Napa cabbage
Napa cabbage, used to make kimchi! We eat the leaves.
Q. What is the name of this fruit or vegetable?
Options: Radish · Strawberry · Lettuce · Potato
Answer: Lettuce
Lettuce, for wrapping up your food! It's a leafy vegetable.
Q. What is the name of this fruit or vegetable?
Options: Onion · Tomato · Pear · Cucumber
Answer: Onion
The onion that makes you cry when you cut it! It's an underground bulb.
Q. What is the name of this fruit or vegetable?
Options: Garlic · Tomato · Radish · Chili pepper
Answer: Garlic
Sharp, punchy garlic! It splits into several cloves.
Q. What is the name of this fruit or vegetable?
Options: Grapes · Persimmon · Lemon · Pumpkin
Answer: Pumpkin
A big round pumpkin! It's a vine fruit.
Q. What is the name of this fruit or vegetable?
Options: Lettuce · Eggplant · Cucumber · Kiwi
Answer: Eggplant
A purple eggplant! We eat the fruit.
Q. What is the name of this fruit or vegetable?
Options: Radish · Broccoli · Onion · Kiwi
Answer: Radish
A fat white radish! We eat the root.
Q. What is the name of this fruit or vegetable?
Options: Cucumber · Spring onion · Chili pepper · Pear
Answer: Chili pepper
The hot chili pepper! It turns red as it ripens.
Q. What is the name of this fruit or vegetable?
Options: Kiwi · Lettuce · Pear · Broccoli
Answer: Broccoli
Broccoli, where we eat the green flower buds!
Q. What is the name of this fruit or vegetable?
Options: Pineapple · Lemon · Korean melon · Orange
Answer: Korean melon
The Korean melon, a yellow striped summer fruit!
Q. What is the name of this fruit or vegetable?
Options: Pineapple · Mandarin · Potato · Napa cabbage
Answer: Pineapple
The pineapple, with its spiky crown! It's a tropical fruit.
Q. What is the name of this fruit or vegetable?
Options: Lemon · Pear · Orange · Pumpkin
Answer: Lemon
The very sour lemon! It's full of vitamin C.
Q. What is the name of this fruit or vegetable?
Options: Banana · Chili pepper · Napa cabbage · Kiwi
Answer: Kiwi
The kiwi, green inside and full of seeds!
Q. What is the name of this fruit or vegetable?
Options: Mushroom · Chili pepper · Cucumber · Watermelon
Answer: Mushroom
The mushroom — a fungus, not a plant! It grows in the shade.
Q. What is the name of this fruit or vegetable?
Options: Tomato · Spring onion · Grapes · Sweet potato
Answer: Spring onion
The spring onion, added to soups and all kinds of cooking!