Surviving & Thriving
Plants use sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide to make their own food in a magical scientific process called this.
Photosynthesis
In The Lion King, this is the name of Simba’s wise-cracking meerkat friend who loves to sing "Hakuna Matata" alongside Pumbaa.
Timon
In this massively popular block-building video game, players try to avoid exploding Creepers and Endermen while mining for diamonds.
Minecraft
Numbers like 2, 3, 5, 7, and 11 only have two factors: 1 and themselves. This is the mathematical term for this special group of numbers.
Prime numbers
This Spanish phrase is the name of the historic 600-mile trail that connected all 21 California missions, translating to "The King's Highway."
El Camino Real
his is the name for a behavior or physical trait that helps an animal survive in its environment, like a porcupine's sharp quills.
Adaptation
This brave, arrow-shooting Pixar princess has three mischievous little brothers and accidentally transforms her mother into a giant bear.
Merida (from Brave)
his global pop superstar is famous for her massive "Eras Tour," her dedicated fans called "Swifties," and hits like Shake It Off.
Taylor Swift
Solve this multi-step problem: A class raises $140 for a field trip. They spend $60 on bus passes, and use the rest of the money to buy $8 museum tickets. This is the total number of tickets they can buy.
10 tickets ($140 - 60 = 80$, and $80 \div 8 = 10$)
This is the specific name for the military forts or outposts that the Spanish built near missions, like the ones in Monterey and San Francisco, to protect the settlements.
Presidios
Animals like bears do this during the freezing winter months, entering a deep, heavy sleep to save energy when food is scarce.
Hibernate (or Hibernation)
To make sure the theme parks stay absolutely spotless, Disney Imagineers designed the parks so that a guest is never more than this many steps away from a trash can.
This is the name of the popular, colorful plastic footwear charms that kids snap into the holes of their Crocs shoes.
Jibbitz
This mathematical property allows you to solve 4 X 32 by breaking it down into (4 X 30) + (4 X 2), making it much easier to solve mentally.
The Distributive Property
This sun-dried brick made of mud and straw was the primary building material used by native workers to construct the thick walls of Mission San Juan Bautista Click to open side panel for more information and other missions.
Adobe
Owls, bats, and raccoons have special eyes that help them hunt for food at night because they are this type of animal.
Nocturnal
This is the name of the immersive, 14-acre Star Wars-themed land where kids can fly the Millennium Falcon and drink blue milk.
Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge
In the viral gaming phenomenon Among Us, players run around a spaceship trying to complete tasks while figuring out who holds this sneaky title.
The Impostor
A school cafeteria orders 14 boxes of apples. If each box contains exactly 25 apples, this is the total number of apples delivered.
350 apples (14 x 25)
After Mexico won its independence from Spain, the mission lands were broken up in a process called secularization, and the land was turned into these massive cattle ranches.
Ranchos
These are the internal organs that fish use to absorb oxygen straight out of the water, acting just like human lungs.
Gills
In the classic movie Aladdin, this is the official name of the fictional, desert kingdom where Princess Jasmine lives in a palace.
Agrabah
This is the name of the standard, colorful cube puzzle invented in the 1970s that people still compete to solve as fast as possible today.
A Rubik's Cube
A square sandbox has a total area of 49 square feet. This is the exact length of just one of its sides.
7 feet (Since it's a square, all sides are equal, and 7 x 7 = 49)
Just outside the mission plaza in San Juan Bautista stands a historic hotel that became a major stop for these horse-drawn vehicles that carried passengers and mail across early California.
Stagecoaches