State Animals
This black-and-white animal is the state animal of Pennsylvania, even though it is more commonly associated with forests than the Keystone State.
What is the white-tailed deer?
This type of cloud is associated with thunderstorms and can grow vertically to great heights.
What is a cumulonimbus cloud?
This 1966 supercar was named after a Spanish fighting bull and became the first production model from its famous Italian manufacturer.
What is Lamborghini Miura?
This nitrogen-rich fertilizer is commonly identified by the chemical formula NH3.
What is ammonia?
This bizarre-looking mammal has enormous ears, a long snout, and can eat thousands of insects in a single night.
What is an aardvark?
This state chose the American bison as its official state mammal in 1975.
What is Oklahoma?
This instrument measures atmospheric pressure, which can help predict approaching storms.
What is a barometer?
This American carmaker introduced the first mass-produced automobile with a fully automatic transmission, called Hydra-Matic, in 1940.
What is Oldsmobile?
This soil-conversation technique involves planting crops in alternating strips, often following the contours of the land.
What is strip cropping?
This animal has a tongue that can be longer than its body and is famous for shooting it outward to catch insects.
What is a chameleon?
This state designated the ring-tailed cat as its official state mammal. Despite its name, it isn't actually a cat.
What is Arizona?
This type of precipitation can fall from a cloud as ice even when temperatures at ground level are above freezing.
What is hail?
The three-digit number in a modern tire size such as 225/60R16 represents this measurement.
What is the tire width in millimeters?
This piece of equipment is used to turn and aerate hay after it has been cut, helping it dry before baling.
This mammal has blood that appears greenish because of unusually high concentrations of a bile pigment called biliverdin.
What is the green-blooded skink?
This state selected the pronghorn as its official state mammal-a fitting choice because the animal is the fastest land mammal in North America.
What is Wyoming?
This phenomenon can make a tornado appear to have multiple funnels even though there is actually one parent circulation.
What is a multiple-vortex tornado?
This Italian automaker's logo features a black prancing horse originally associated with World War I pilot Francesco Baracca.
What is Ferrari?
This agricultural practice involves planting a crop specifically to protect and improve the soil between periods of growing the main crop.
What is cover-cropping?
This Mexican amphibian can regenerate not only limbs but portions of its heart, spinal cord and brain.
What is the axolotl?
This state's official mammal is the Fisher, a forest-dwelling member of the weasel family-not a person who catches fish.
What is Massachusetts?
This unusual lightning phenomenon appears as a glowing ball and has been reported lasting much longer than ordinary lightning.
What is ball lightning?
This car became famous as the time-traveling machine in the Back to the Future movies.
What is the DeLorean DMC-12?
This state is the nation's leading producer of soybeans, while also ranking among the top producers of corn and hogs.
What is Iowa?
This parasitic creature can replace the tongue of a fish by attaching itself to the tongue and eventually functioning as a substitute.
What is the tongue-eating louse?