Activities
The inflatable object commonly used for games during summer
What is a beach ball?
In hot places, the breakfast food which can be fried on the sidewalk
What is eggs?
The insect often captured in jars on summer nights for its glow
What is Firefly?
The approximate date that summer starts in the Northern Hemisphere
What is June 20, 21, or 22?
The name for a group/society of bees
What is a colony?
The summer sport which involves a net, ball and sand
What is beach volleyball?
True or false: popsicles were invented by accident, by an 11 year old
What is true?
Frank Epperson, initially called Epsicles
The butterflies which spend summer in North America before migrating 3000 miles
What is Monarchs?
The cause of sun burns
What is UV radiation?
Damages skin cells
The number of species of bees which produce honey
What is one?
(out of over 20 000!). Western honey bees
The name for a beginner surfer
What is a Kook?
The chilled summer soup made from tomatoes and other pureed vegetables
What is gazpacho?
The factor responsible for making a mosquito bite itch
What is mosquito saliva?
True or false: SPF stands for Sun Protection Fluid
What is false?
Sun protection factor
The four stages of all bees lifecycles
What is Egg - Larva - Pupa - Adult?
The national summer sport of Canada
What is lacrosse?
The best way to tell if a watermelon is sweet
What is the size of the hole left behind by the flower?
smaller = flower was on for longer = sweeter
True or false: both hummingbird species in Victoria stay all summer and winter.
False
The two conditions a summer thunderstorm needs to form
What is moisture and rapidly warming air?
True or false: more than half of the food we eat is pollinated by bees.
What is false?
- about a third.
The world's oldest annual marathon
What is the Boston Marathon?
Between ice milk, gelato, and ice cream, the dessert with the most milk fat
What is ice cream?
True or false: some animals 'hibernate' in the summer.
What is true?
This is called aestivation
The primary reason that it is warmer in the summer
What is the tilt of the earth?
steeper angle that rays hit the surface = more concentrated rays. The NH is actually somewhat further from the sun in summer
True or false: wasps are a type of bee
What is false?
Bees evolved from wasps/a common wasp ancestor, but are so different that they are in separate orders. Wasps are also carnivores.