Nature 🌳
This natural waterfall spans Canada and the United States.
What is Niagara Falls?
The three waterfalls have the highest flow rate of all falls on Earth.
Durum, semolina, self-rising, bread, and whole wheat are types of this.
What is flour?
Flour is made by milling grains, beans, nuts, and seeds into a fine powder.
This is the fastest animal on land.
What are cheetahs?
They can run as fast as a car on the highway—up to 112 kph. And they can reach that speed in just 3 seconds!
A typical Chinese restaurant dinner in the Western world ends with this cookie.
What is a fortune cookie?
These cookies were invented in the United States during the 20th century and are not part of a typical Chinese dinner.
Fruit and vegetable production relies heavily on these stinging pollinators.
What are bees?
Honeybees also provide food. Bees must gather pollen from around two million flowers to make a pound of honey.
This fruit is in the filling of Nabisco’s BLANK Newtons.
What are figs?
Despite being called a fruit, a fig is technically a syconium—a tiny group of inverted flowers growing inside a pod. Each pod contains hundreds of flowers, and each flower produces a small seed, which is the actual fruit of the fig plant.
This beautiful pink bird is born gray.
What is the flamingo?
Flamingos eat a diet of brine shrimp and blue-green algae that contains carotenoids that turn their feathers pink.
During the holidays, you are bound to see cookies made with a thumbprint and filled with this.
What is jelly or jam?
The cookies are cooked with jelly or jam, not topped after baking.
We depend on these living things to pull carbon dioxide out of the air.
What are plants or trees?
In one year, a mature tree absorbs 22 pounds of carbon dioxide and releases enough oxygen for one person to breathe for two years
This type of apple bears the name of a Japanese company that still makes camera film.
What is Fuji?
The Fuji apple is one of the sweetest apples on the market. It was bred in Japan from two American varieties.
This flightless bird has the same name as a fruit
What is the kiwi?
Kiwis are an endangered species, with only five percent surviving birth. They’re the national bird of New Zealand.
These cream filled cookies are the world’s best-selling.
What are Oreos?
They were introduced in 1912, and they’ve maintained their popularity for more than a century.
This peak in the Himalayan Mountains straddles Nepal and Tibet.
What is Mount Everest?
Visitors who don’t want to climb to the peak at 29,029 feet can book a sightseeing fligh
These are Mediterranean/ Middle Eastern fried or baked balls or patties made with chickpeas, herbs, and spices and often drizzled with tahini.
What are falafel?
Falafel are thought to have originated with the Coptic Christian Egyptians during Lent as a replacement for meat
This bird cannot move it's eyes.
What are owls?
They technically don’t have eyeballs, they have eye tubes that provide better depth perception and allow them to see prey from great distances. Because they can't move their eyes, they must turn their heads.
This is the top-selling Girl Scout cookie.
What are Thin Mints?
Frozen Thin Mints are a refreshing summer treat if you can discipline yourself to hide some away in the depths of your freezer.
This dwarf planet was discovered in 1930 and hasn’t made a revolution around the sun since then.
What is Pluto?
It takes 248.09 years for Pluto to complete one revolution around the sun.
Farfalle belongs to this group of Italian staples.
What is pasta?
Farfalle looks like little bow ties and is one of the oldest pasta shapes. It dates back to the 16th century, when women would use leftover pasta dough to make the little bow ties.
This water creature has three hearts.
What is an octopus?
Two pump blood through the gills, while the third pumps it through the rest of the body.
This is the base ingredient of the Italian cookie amaretti.
What is almond paste?
Amaretti cookies come from Serrano, Italy, and they’re Italy’s response to France’s macarons. They’re also gluten-free.