Metazoan Madness
These flying insects pollinate flowers and produce honey.
What are Bees?
This ancient mountain range is over 400 million years old, and makes up a large part of Eastern North America, including New England and Estrie.
What are the Appalachians?
This short green plant is common everywhere and easy to find - just look down!
What is grass?
Several major Canadian cities are located on the coast of this Great Lake, including Toronto, Hamilton ("Steeltown"), Kingston, and St. Catharines.
What is Lake Ontario?
These ancient lizards lived in a era known as the Mesozoic, their decendants are modern-day birds.
What are Dinosaurs?
This Australian mammal carrys its young in a pouch. Unlike its cousin the kangeroo, this animal lives in the rainforests and feeds off eucalyptus trees.
What are Koalas?
Taking up 1/3 of South America, this rainforest is by far the World's largest. Animals found here include jaguars, capybaras, toucans, and sharks (yes, sharks in the rainforest!)
What is the Amazon Rainforest?
These desert plants can survive for months without water - be careful not to touch them!
What are Cacti? (1/2 points for cactuses)
A vast inland sea that seperates Europe from Africa. Many countries share its coast, including Greece, Italy, France, and Algeria.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
This event is believed to have created the Universe 14 billion years ago.
What is the Big Bang?
Aquatic creatures of tremendous size, they are not only the largest extant (currently living) animals, but also the largest to ever exist.
What are Whales?
Located in the Pacific, this is the deepest point in Earth's oceans at nearly 11,000 meters deep.
What is the Mariana Trench?
Technically algae and not plants, these organisms live in aquatic environments and are an essential ingredient in sushi.
What is seaweed?
This artificial (human made) water body is in Central America, and is the easiest way for boats to travel between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
What is the Panama Canal?
These relatives of elephants roamed North America in the ice age - 11 thousand years ago they went extinct due to a combination of human and environmental factors.
What are Mammoths/Mastadons?
These semi-aquatic (lives on land and water) reptiles are related to alligators, and are found all over the World in places like Egypt, Australia, and Mexico.
What are Crocodiles?
Found in the US state of Arizona, this gorge is the largest in the world.
What is the Grand Canyon?
Trees like pine, spruce, and cedar that don't loose their leaves (needles) in winter are called this.
What are Evergreens/Conifers?
Located off the coast of the Australian state of Queensland, this sea is host to the world's largest coral reef - The Great Barrier Reef.
What is the Coral Sea?
This flying animal belonged to a group of extinct flying lizards called the pterosaurs - technically they are not dinosaurs despite living at the same time as them.
What is Pteradactyl? (the name of any pterasaur also accepted)
Some of the earliest animals, these marine invertabrates float aimlessly through the water, defended by their venomous tenticles.
What are Jellyfish?
The largest desert on Earth isn't the Sahara or even the Outback, instead it takes up an entire continent.
What is Antarctica?
The official tree of Québec (bouleau jaune en Français), this species has bark with a yellowish-gold colour and is economically important for its lumber and syrup (not maple!)
What is the Yellow Birch? (Birch for 1/2 points)
Known as L'Océan Austral in French, this ocean is located in Earth's southern hemisphere and surrounds Antarctica.
What is the Southern Ocean?
What is Pangaea?