Columbian Exchange Activity

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Found in the United States and Canada. Traditional to eat in the Fall for Thanksgiving and Christmas.

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Spicy! Grows well in humid, hot climate. Creates chili pepper flakes, cayenne spice, and hot sauce.

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Grows in the Fall. You can eat the seeds too! Used in Halloween and Thanksgiving. Grows on a vine in the ground.

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Includes zucchini, butternut, acorn, and spaghetti squash. Bright green, yellow, and orange colors. Speckled or striped.

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- Can be made into pie or pralines. - Grow on trees. - Have a shell.

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- Grow in a bog (wet land). - Harvested in the Fall.

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- Also known as an "alligator pear." - Grows in tropical climate.

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- Grows in a bean pod that comes from orchids. - Grows on a vine. - Likes humid, hot, tropical temperatures.

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- Is a cereal grain. - Can be made into syrup, starch, gasoline, and a type of flour.

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- Also known as a "goober." - Grows underground. - Grows best in tropic and sub-tropic climate.

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