Riddles
What has to be broken before you can use it?
An egg
Birds are endothermic.
they maintain constant body temperature by themselves, without depending on outside factors
Five people were eating apples, A finished before B, but behind C. D finished before E, but behind B. What was the finishing order
CABDE. Putting the first three in order, A finished in front of B but behind C, so CAB. Then, we know D finished before B, so CABD. We know E finished after D, so CABDE.
It is an animal that breathes air, has a backbone, and grows hair at some point during its life. In addition, all female animals have glands that can produce milk. These type of animals are among the most intelligent of all living creatures.
Mammal
The large, meat-eating dinosaur. It can be recognized by the large horn on its snout. Although it was smaller, it looked very much like its rival, Allosaurus. It belongs to the group of meat-eating dinosaurs known as theropods.
Ceratosaurus
I’m tall when I’m young, and I’m short when I’m old. What am I?
A candle
Birds are vertebrates
they have an inner skeleton that contains a spine, limbs, and a skull
The day before two days after the day before tomorrow is Saturday. What day is it today?
Friday. The “day before tomorrow” is today; “the day before two days after” is really one day after. So if “one day after today is Saturday,” then it must be Friday.
They can live on land or in water. They are vertebrates, or animals with backbones. They were the ancestors of all reptiles, birds, and mammals.
Amphibians
It was one of the largest and most ferocious predators ever to walk on Earth. Its name means “king of the tyrant lizards.” They were theropods, or meat-eating dinosaurs that walked on their two back legs.
T. Rex
What month of the year has 28 days?
All of them
Birds are bipedal
they move on two limbs when they are on the ground
Billy’s mother had five children. The first was named Lala, the second was named Lele, the third was named Lili, the fourth was named Lolo. What was the fifth child named?
Billy
It is an air-breathing animal that has scales instead of hair or feathers. They have lived on Earth for more than 280 million years. Scientists consider them to be the ancestors of birds and mammals.
A reptile
It was a plant-eating dinosaur that walked on four legs. It was one of a family called the ankylosaurs. The ankylosaurs all had bony plates on their backs and sides that acted as armor to protect them
Euoplocephalus
What is always in front of you but can’t be seen?
The future
The body is covered with unique structures
feathers
It’s as light as a feather, but the strongest person can’t hold it for more than five minutes. What is it?
Breath
It is a kind of animal with a soft body. They have a hard shell that protects the body. There are more than 100,000 species, or types. Octopuses, oysters, snails, and squid are just a few examples.
A mollusk
It was a long-necked reptile that lived in the ocean during the time of the dinosaurs. It belonged to a group of reptiles called plesiosaurs. Unlike dinosaurs, plesiosaurs did not walk on land. Instead, they had flippers to paddle through the water. It was the longest of the plesiosaurs.
Elasmosaurus
What can you break, even if you never pick it up or touch it?
A promise
legs are covered with
scales
The more there is, the less you see. What is it?
Fog
When an entire species, or type, of animal dies out, that species is _____. Once a species becomes _____, it is gone forever.
extinct
They are the remains or traces of plants and animals that lived long ago. They give scientists clues about the past. For this reason, they are important to paleontology, or the study of prehistoric life.
Fossils