Beans
These sugary beans seem to disappear very quickly in our house. -\/(^_^)\/-
What are jelly beans?
This space rock, when floating by the Sun, warms up and releases gas, which forms a Coma and sometimes a tail.
What is a Comet?
In Ireland, the pumpkin carving tradition began with the tale of Stingy Jack, a man who tricked the Devil into not taking his soul. God would not let him into heaven, and Jack now wanders Earth holding a lantern made of a turnip. We use pumpkins for carving in this holiday.
What is Halloween?
This is the term for lightning that can be seen in a bolt and has multiple branches.
What is fork lightning?
This is the word many older siblings will call their annoying younger siblings.
What is brat?
In this fairy tale, a young boy trades his cows for magic beans, which when thrown out the window by his furious mother, grows into a giant vine stretching into the clouds.
What is Jack and the Beanstalk?
These dark holes are made when a star´s core collapses in on itself, creating a massive gravitational pull.
What is a black hole?
In Germanic culture, Belsnickel is a feared giver who comes in winter, beating naughty children with a switch. It is related to this holiday, celebrated in America.
What is Christmas?
The scientific term for lightning that flashes and lights up the clouds around it is intracloud lightning, but it is more commonly known as this.
What is sheet lightning?
This kind of person is one who has a lot of money and power, and are typically in a ruling class.
What is an Aristocrat?
`The Bean,´located in Millenium Park, Chicago, is actually named this.
What is the Cloud Gate?
When a star collapses, it goes ¨this¨, a term for when the star explodes and pieces of it fly off into space.
What is Supernova?
In Germany, people bring in Ostereierbaum, trees decorated with embellished eggs. This may seem odd, but it is the German cousin to this holiday celebrated around here.
What is Easter?
Fulgurite is made when a lightning bolt strikes a sandy beach; it is more commonly known as this.
What is petrified lightning?
This layer of the atmosphere is the second closest to the earth at 14.6 kilometers up. It is where supersonic flights take place.
What is the stratosphere?
This percussion instrument is made out of a wooden tube with nails poked in from the outside. The tube is filled with beans and, when turned upside down, makes a tinkling sound similar to rain.
What is a rainstick?
In space, this is a cloud of gas and dust collected in one area, seen in the night sky as a bright patch or a dark spot against other bright things.
What is a nebula?
In the Philippines, they take this holiday to the next level. Instead of roses and chocolates, hundreds of people go to public places and get married at the same time.
What is Valentines Day?
This is the state a bolt of lightning is in that allows one to see it´s whitish color, created by the extreme heat of the bolt heating the air around it.
What is Incandescence?
This is a term for when one person scolds another or criticizes them angrily for the bad things they have done.
What is berate?
This candy game involves a spinner and a box of jelly beans that are both good and bad. Good ones range from cotton candy to fudge, but the bad ones could be anything from centipede to dog food.
What is Bean Boozled?
This term describes the stretching process that a human would undergo when being pulled into a black hole.
What is Spaghettification/Noodling?
In France, this foolish holiday is celebrated too. People will stick paper fish onto another´s back. When the victim finds the fish, the culprit will yell Poisson d´ Avril!
What is April Fools Day?
The irrational fear or phobia of lightning is called this.
What is keraunophobia?
This is the term for when a material has been thoroughly soaked with liquid so that it cannot hold any more fluid.
What is saturated?