Vegetarianism
This soybean-based protein, originally from China, is a staple of many vegetarian meals.
What is tofu?
Making up about 60% of your body, you should drink plenty of it daily.
What is water?
Reduce, reuse, and this third "R."
What is recycle?
This swirling dark-and-light symbol represents complementary opposites in Daoist thought.
What is the yin-yang?
The largest animal ever to live on Earth, bigger than any dinosaur.
What is the blue whale?
Roughly this percentage of agriculture is used to feed livestock.
What are 75-80%?
Health experts suggest teens aim for this many hours of sleep a night (a range is fine).
What is 8 to 10 hours?
This atmospheric layer shields Earth from harmful UV radiation.
What is the ozone layer?
The traditional founder of Daoism and author of the Tao Te Ching.
Who is Laozi (Lao Tzu)?
Give an example of a palindrome (word spelled the same forward and backwards)
racecar, radar, civic,
Roughly 20-40% of this county is vegetarian.
What is India
Eating a rainbow of fruits and veggies loads you up with these disease-fighting compounds that give berries and carrots their bright colors.
What are antioxidants?
The total greenhouse gases produced by your activities is called this.
What is a carbon footprint?
This peaceful figure sat under a tree until he reached "enlightenment" and became the founder of Buddhism.
Who is the Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama)?
The only mammal capable of true flight.
What is a bat?
Vegetarians most often need to supplement this vitamin, since it comes mainly from animal foods.
What is B12?
These tiny gut-friendly bacteria in yogurt are the "good guys" that keep your digestion happy. Think of them as your stomach's cheer squad!
What are probiotics?
Coal, oil, and natural gas belong to this group of CO₂-releasing fuels.
What are fossil fuels?
This famous scientist with the messy hair and the theory of relativity became a vegetarian in his final years.
Who is Albert Einstein?
This is the only food that never spoils - archaeologists found edible pots of it in ancient Egyptian tombs.
What is honey?
This South American "ancient grain" is a complete protein with all nine essential amino acids.
What is quinoa?
This term is the number of calories your body burns at complete rest just to stay alive.
What is basal metabolic rate (BMR)?
When rainforests get cleared for cattle ranching, it's a double whammy: fewer trees soaking up carbon AND more cows burping out this planet-warming gas.
What is methane?
This idea from Hindu and Buddhist thought says your actions come back around - do good, good returns; do bad, well… you reap what you sow. It's basically the universe keeping score.
What is karma?
What are Pig, the cat's, favorite foods (name one)?
Asparagus, tomato, corn, melon.