State Capitals
Ohio
What is Columbus?
These siblings were the first to achieve sustained powered airplane flight in Kitty Hawk, NC in 1903.
Who were the Wright Brothers?
This is the primary language spoken in most South American nations.
What is Spanish?
This optical phenomenon occurs when sunlight reflects and refracts through falling raindrops, splitting the light into a spectrum.
What is a rainbow?
This romantic red flower is widely considered the global symbol of love.
What is the rose?
Georgia
What is Atlanta?
For 13 days in 1962, the world faced a nuclear standoff involving the U.S., USSR, and a Caribbean island.
What was the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This strait separates the southern tip of mainland South America from Tierra del Fuego.
What is the Strait of Magellan?
This type of radar uses frequency shifts to measure the motion of precipitation, allowing meteorologist to track weather and see rotation inside of storms.
What is Doppler radar?
This term describes a plant that completes its entire life cycle, from seed to flower to death, within a single growing season.
What is an annual?
Florida
What is Tallahassee?
Born in Scotland in 1996, a sheep named Dolly made global headlines for becoming the first mammal produced by this scientific process.
What is cloning?
This famous colossal statue overlooks Rio de Janeiro.
What is the statue of Christ the Redeemer?
This narrow band of fast moving, high-altitude winds flow from west to east and heavily influence steering patterns of weather systems.
What is the jet stream?
This type of plant, like a cactus, has thick fleshy parts adapted to store water in arid climates.
What is a succulent?
Pennsylvania
What is Harrisburg?
Organized by Bob Geldof in 1985, this dual-venue concert was watched by 1.9 billion people and raised millions for Ethiopian famine relief.
What was Live Aid?
This lake, shared between Peru and Bolivia, is the world's highest navigable body of water.
What is Lake Titicaca?
This term describes the percentage of water vapor present in the air compared to the maximum amount the air could hold at a given temperature.
What is relative humidity?
These giant California trees are widely considered to be the largest living organisms on Earth by total wood volume.
What are giant sequoias?
West Virginia
What is Charleston?
Ratified in 1920, this U.S. constitutional amendment granted women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
This ancient grain, a staple in the Andean diet, is known as the "mother grain".
What is Quinoa?
This massive, towering cloud type is responsible for producing thunderstorms, hail, and tornadoes.
What is the cumulonimbus cloud?
Trees classified by this term lose all of their leaves each autumn and enter a periodof winter dormancy.
What is deciduous?