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Autumn Vocabulary Quiz Worksheet

Directions: Match the vocabulary words on the left with the definitions on the right.

1. harvest A ripened plant ovule containing an embryo.
2.  pigments A long-handled implement with a row of projecting teeth at its head, used especially to gather leaves or to loosen or smooth earth.
3.  foliage Either of the two times during a year when the sun crosses the celestial equator and when the length of day and night are approximately equal.
4. frost The act or process of gathering a crop.
5. cinnamon A deposit of minute ice crystals formed when water vapor condenses at a temperature below freezing.
6. rake The periodic passage from one region to another for feeding or breeding.
7.  aroma A secondary woody stem or limb growing from the trunk or main stem of a tree or shrub or from another secondary limb
8.  equinox A substance, such as chlorophyll or melanin, that produces a characteristic color in plant or animal tissue.
9. migration Plant leaves, especially tree leaves, considered as a group.
10.  branches Any of a group of green pigments that are found in the chloroplasts of plants and in other photosynthetic organisms.
11. growth Any of several trailing or climbing plants related to the pumpkin, squash, and cucumber and bearing fruits with a hard rind.
12.  acorn A pleasant characteristic odor, as of a plant, spice, or food.
13.  seeds The fruit of an oak, consisting of a single-seeded, thick-walled nut set in a woody, cuplike base.
14.  chlorophyll An outfit or a disguise worn on Mardi Gras, Halloween, or similar occasions.
15. gourd increasing in volume or mass.
16.  costumes The dried aromatic inner bark of certain tropical Asian trees; used as a spice.
17.  scarecrow A crude image or effigy of a person set up in a field to scare birds away from growing crops.

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