Fruits & Vegetables Vocabulary Quiz

Match the following terms with their definitions:

• Grow in tropical conditions and can be harmed in frost conditions

• Summer Fruits

• Flourish in the winter and ripen in winter conditions

• Winter Fruits

• Flourish and ripen in the summer months

• Tropical Fruits

• Natural form of sugar found in fruit

• Fructose

• Organs developed from the ovary of a flowering plant

• Fruits

Match the following terms with their definitions:

• Vegetable group which contains all variations of onions

• Vegetable

• Effect when oxygen reacts with the flesh of certain fruits

• Fruit/Vegetable Fruits

• Commonly mistaken for vegetables but have internal seeds

• Capsaicin

• Edible, herblike plant

• Enzymatic Browning

• Enzyme in the seeds and flesh of peppers which are hot on the palate

• Onions and Bulbs

Match the following terms with their definitions:

• Product of a climbing or vine plant

• Sulfur

• Element in onions which reacts with oxygen and causes the eyes to water

• Gourds and Squashes

• Flower portion is consumed

• Flowering Vegetables

• Have a very thin skin and can be consumed raw or cooked

• Summer Squashes

Match the following types of vegetables with their characteristics: Winter Squashes, Green, Leafy Vegetables, Root and Tuber Vegetables, Stalk Vegetables

• Green and leafy; can be consumed raw or cooked

• Have a very thick skin and must be cooked to consume

• Grown below the surface of the ground; roots are located by a stalk above ground

• Grown below the surface of the ground; roots are located by a stalk above ground

• Have a very thick skin and must be cooked to consume

• Green and leafy; can be consumed raw or cooked

• Stalk is the primary portion consumed

• Stalk is the primary portion consumed

Match the following terms with their definitions:

• Chemical naturally produced by chlorophyll as a defense mechanism against insects, disease, and predators

• Eyes

• Part of the potato where the roots grow into the potato

• Legumes

• Interior portion and seeds are consumed

• Solanine

• Bean category within pod and seed vegetables

• Pod and Seed Vegetables