Extinctions
What elephant cousin with long tusks and thick fur went extinct after the Ice Age?
What is The Woolly Mammoth
This imaginary line circles the Earth at 0 degrees latitude
What is The Equator
This Arizona wonder, carved by the Colorado River, is up to 18 miles wide and over a mile deep
What is The Grand Canyon
What underwater "rainforest" is made of tiny animals called polyps?
What is A coral reef
What giant reptiles ruled the Earth for over 165 million years?
What are dinosaurs
This Ice Age cat with giant fangs existed 10,000 years ago before its extinction
What is the Saber-toothed Tiger
What map part tells you 1 inch equals 100 miles
What is a Scale
This U.S. park has a popular active geyser and colorful hot springs?
What is Yellowstone
What Artic whale has a unicorn-like tusk?
What is a Narwhal
These raiders sailed longships 1000 years ago
Who are The Vikings
What current geological epoch are we living in, starting about 12,000 years ago?
What is the Holocene
What book of maps is named after a Greek god who help up the sky?
What is an Atlas
The Northern Lights is also referred to as...
What is the Aurora Borealis
What orange fish lives in a stinging sea anemone?
What is a Clownfish
This ancient wonder is proclaimed to have burned down losing countless ancient texts
What is the Library of Alexandria
During the Late Devonian extinction, massive blooms of this microscopic organism may have suffocated marine life by consuming oxygen.
What are Algae
What two-island country sits southeast of Australia
What is New Zealand
What African waterfall is called “The Smoke That Thunders”
What is Victoria Falls
What glowing trick do some deep-sea fish use to hunt or hide?
What is Bioluminescence
What "lost" Inca city sat hidden in Peru's clouds until 1911?
What is Machu Picchu
In 2011, the IUCN declared this subspecies extinct due to their intense poaching for their horns and habitat loss due to human activity. It is known that they have existed for 7 to 8 million years prior to extinction.
What is the Western African Black Rhino
What is The Caspian Sea
What Pacific chain inspired Darwin’s evolution ideas?
What is The Galapagos Islands
This deep water creature is known for its long songs and having the longest pectoral fins of any living animal
What is the Humpback whale
1895, on November 8th, was the year of this major scientific breakthrough
What is the X-Ray Machine