Name: ______Date______

Life Cycle of a Pumpkin

PART A

Directions: Read each question below and write each answer in a complete sentence. Do not begin your sentence with BECAUSE or AND.

1.  What is a statement of fact? ______

2.  What is a statement of opinion? ______

3.  What is the genre of this story? ______

4.  A pumpkin is a kind of ______.

5.  How are male and female pumpkin flowers different? ______

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6.  Name four things that can harm a pumpkin plant. ______

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7.  How many months does it take until the pumpkin is ready to harvest?

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8.  What happens to some of the pumpkin seeds? ______

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PART B

Directions: Fill in the sentences below with the correct word. Each word will only be used once.

smooth / vine / root / bumpy / cook
fruit / soil / harvest / push / full

1.  A pumpkin is a kind of ______.

2.  In about ten days, a ______grows down into the soil.

3.  Some people ______pumpkin pie.

4.  The seed is planted in warm, moist ______.

5.  During ______, the farmer cuts the thick pumpkin stem from the vine.

6.  The vines will get ______of pumpkins.

7.  Some pumpkins are flat and ______.

8.  Pumpkins are grown on a ______.

9.  Some pumpkins are rough and ______.

10. Tiny leaves ______up into the sunlight.