New Years Traditions
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Earth science & the natural world
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The zodiac sign for people born November 1–21

What is Scorpio

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The practice of focusing on the present moment.

What is mindfulness?

100

The longest season in the Northern Hemisphere.

What is summer?

100

The tallest mountain in the world above sea level.

What is Mount Everest?

100

This green character tries to stop Christmas from coming in a classic holiday movie.

Who is the Grinch?

200

The gemstone most commonly associated with November birthdays

What is topaz?

200

The practice of writing thoughts and feelings to help process them.

What is journaling?

200

This layer of Earth contains the tectonic plates.

What is the lithosphere?

200

The world’s longest river (according to most modern measurements).

What is the Nile?

200

The actor who plays Captain Jack Sparrow.

Who is Johnny Depp?

300

The famous New Year’s Eve ball drop happens in this city.

What is New York City?

300

This grounding technique involves naming 5 things you can see, 4 things you can touch, etc.

What is the 5-4-3-2-1 method?

300

The process by which water vapor turns into liquid water.

What is condensation?

300

The language spoken by the most people worldwide.

What is English?
300

This film franchise features the song “My Heart Will Go On.”

What is Titanic?

400

Many people make these promises to themselves at the start of a new year.

What are resolutions?

400

A common sleep hormone released in the brain that helps regulate the sleep-wake cycle.

What is Melatonin?

400

The only continent that has no native bee species.

What is Antarctica?

400

The largest internal organ in the human body.

What is the liver?

400

The 1980s movie featuring the line, “Nobody puts Baby in a corner.”

What is Dirty Dancing?

500

In Greece, families hang an onion (the “kremmyda”) on their door on New Year’s for this symbolic reason.

What is growth or new beginnings?

500

The part of the brain that helps control emotions and memory.

What is the amygdala?

500

The closest star to Earth.

What is the Sun?

500

The country that invented paper.

What is China?

500

In Back to the Future, Marty McFly travels in a car called this.

What is the DeLorean?

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