Animals
This animal is known as “man’s best friend.”
What is a dog?
Dogs have been companions to humans for over 15,000 years and can understand up to 250 words and gestures.
This is the tallest mountain in the world above sea level.
What is Mount Everest?
Fun Fact: Mount Everest grows about 4 millimeters taller each year due to tectonic plate movement.
This planet is the largest in our solar system.
What is Jupiter?
Fun Fact: Its famous Great Red Spot is a giant storm that has been raging for over 300 years.
This process allows plants to make their own food using sunlight.
What is photosynthesis?
Fun Fact: Photosynthesis produces the oxygen we breathe, making plants essential for most life on Earth.
This organ pumps blood throughout the body.
What is the heart?
Fun Fact: Your heart beats about 100,000 times a day.
This is the largest animal currently living on Earth.
What is the blue whale?
Fun Fact: A blue whale’s heart is about the size of a small car, and its tongue alone can weigh as much as an elephant.
This is the longest river in the world.
What is the Nile River?
Fun Fact: The Nile flows through 11 countries and was crucial to the development of ancient Egyptian civilization.
This planet has the most moons in our solar system.
What is Saturn?
Fun Facts:
One of its moons, Titan, has rivers and lakes made of liquid methane and ethane, not water.
Another moon, Enceladus, shoots water geysers into space, suggesting it may have a hidden ocean beneath its icy surface.
This desert plant stores water in its thick stem instead of its leaves.
What is a cactus?
Fun Fact: Some cacti can expand like an accordion after heavy rain.
This body system helps you breathe by bringing oxygen into your lungs.
What is the respiratory system?
Fun Fact: You breathe about 20,000 times each day without thinking about it.
This animal can sleep standing up and is commonly used for riding.
What is a horse?
Fun Fact: Horses can sleep standing because of a special leg-locking system called the stay apparatus.
This vast desert is the largest hot desert on Earth.
What is the Sahara Desert?
Fun Fact: The Sahara is so large it’s about the same size as the United States.
This type of star explosion can briefly outshine an entire galaxy.
What is a supernova?
Fun Fact: Most of the elements heavier than iron, including gold and uranium, are created during supernova explosions.
This plant is famous for growing very tall very fast.
What is bamboo?
Fun Fact: Some bamboo can grow over 3 feet in one day.
This part of your body is always growing, even after you stop getting taller.
What are your ears (and nose)?
Fun Fact: Cartilage keeps slowly growing throughout your life.
This fast African land animal can reach speeds of up to 70 miles per hour.
What is a cheetah?
Fun Fact: Cheetahs can go from 0 to 60 mph in about 3 seconds, faster than most sports cars!
This natural landmark is the largest coral reef system in the world.
What is the Great Barrier Reef?
Fun Fact: It’s so massive it can be seen from outer space and is made up of over 2,900 individual reefs.
This galaxy is the closest major galaxy to the Milky Way.
What is the Andromeda Galaxy?
Fun Fact: Andromeda and the Milky Way are slowly moving toward each other and are expected to collide in about 4–5 billion years.
This plant can close its leaves when touched.
What is the Venus flytrap (or sensitive plant)?
Fun Fact: The Venus flytrap snaps shut in less than one second to trap insects.
These tiny cells in your blood help fight infections.
What are white blood cells?
Fun Fact: Your body makes millions of white blood cells every day.
This marine animal has three hearts and blue blood.
What is an octopus?
Fun Fact: Two of an octopus’s hearts stop beating when it swims, which is why it prefers crawling along the ocean floor.
This is the deepest known point in Earth’s oceans.
What is the Mariana Trench?
Fun Fact: Despite the extreme pressure and complete darkness, scientists have discovered living organisms in the Mariana Trench, including tiny shrimp-like creatures and bacteria that survive without sunlight.
This region of space lies beyond Neptune and contains icy objects.
What is the Kuiper Belt?
Fun Fact: Pluto is one of the most famous objects in the Kuiper Belt.
This plant releases smells like rotting meat to attract pollinators.
What is the corpse flower?
Fun Fact: The corpse flower’s bloom is one of the largest in the world and can smell from miles away.
This body system sends messages using electricity to help you think, move, and feel.
What is the nervous system?
Fun Fact: Nerve signals can travel up to 250 miles per hour.