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Pennsylvania Academic Standards: Science 3.3.4 A

After eating a tasty Jack Rabbit Salad, ask yourself this question: "How much do I know about vegetables?" Botanists divide vegetables into EIGHT categories. Before checking out the list, see if you can name some of the categories.

The categories are: leaf, stem, root, tuber, flower and bud, seed and seedpod, fruit-vegetable, and fungi. See if you can identify the following vegetables according to the part of the plant we eat.

  1. ROOT
  2. TUBER
  3. STEM
  4. LEAF
  5. FLOWER and BUD
  6. SEED and SEEDPOD
  7. FRUIT-VEGETABLE
  8. FUNGI
  1. Asparagus
  2. Beets
  3. Broccoli
  4. Brussels Sprouts
  5. Carrots
  6. Cauliflower
  7. Cabbage
  8. Celery
  9. Corn
  10. Cucumber
  11. Eggplant
  12. Kale
  13. Leek
  14. Lettuce
  15. Morels
  16. Mushrooms
  17. Okra
  18. Onion
  19. Parsnip
  20. Peas
  21. Pepper
  22. Potato
  23. Pumpkin
  24. Radish
  25. Spinach
  26. Squash
  27. Sweet potato
  28. Tomato
  29. Turnip
  30. Water chestnut
  31. Yam

Answers: Show/Hide
  1. c
  2. a
  3. e
  4. d
  5. a
  6. e
  7. d
  8. c
  9. f
  10. g
  11. g
  12. d
  13. c
  14. d
  15. h
  16. h
  17. g
  18. c
  19. a
  20. f
  21. g
  22. b
  23. g
  24. a
  25. d
  26. g
  27. b
  28. g
  29. a
  30. b
  31. b



The vegetable quiz was adapted from: Simple Kitchen Experiments, by Muriel Mandell, copyright date 1993, published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
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