Geography
While it may not be obvious, the south of South America is one of the few places cold enough to support some kinds of these little swimming birds. Psych, it's a bird question!
What are penguins?
Some foolish people like making a game out of harassing this type of turtle and seeing if they get to keep all their fingers.
What are snapping turtles?
This is what referees call it when a runner "jumps the gun", so to speak, like Ghost did at his first race.
What is a false start?
These birds are one of those animals that really love how humans make trash everywhere they go, and for this reason they don't even have to live near water as much for the sake of fishing.
What are gulls?
O.C Marsh was famous for his work regarding this animal, one of the last known dinosaurs.
What is the triceratops?
This is the world's largest hot desert, and that's all you get.
What is the Sahara Desert?
This is the one type of sea turtle we discussed, as featured in Finding Nemo and unable to hide in its shell.
What is the green turtle?
This disease that Patty's Ma calls "the sugar" led to her legs getting cut off, which is a real thing that can really happen if you don't take care of yourself!
What is diabetes?
This measure of birds is even more important to them than height is to humans, because it affects how well they can fly.
What is wingspan?
A solar "belch" could lead to us seeing being able to see this northern atmospheric phenomenon, even though we're usually too far south to see it.
What is the aurora borealis?
This ancient South American fortress is a United Nations World Heritage Site, and is slowly re-opening to tourists after a national lockdown.
What is Machu Picchu?
This type of turtle (not one of the earlier reptiles) has a little tongue shaped like a worm to bait in fish.
What are alligator snappers (or snapping turtles)?
This is a more typical imaginary activity for parents to engage their children with than eating invisible cupcakes, but it's less tasty.
What are tea parties?
While it's normal to see feathers and think "flying", there are these kinds of fluffy feathers that are made to keep warm, which might get used in fancier pillows.
What is down?
In Bemidji, a pay-it-forward chain lasted nearly 3 days, making this drive-thru fast food restaurant $10,000 in sales from over 900 vehicles.
What is Dairy Queen?
This east African country features every vowel in the English alphabet, and its official language is Portuguese, even if most people usually just speak their own languages.
What is Mozambique?
This very important vocabulary word introduced on page 84 means an animal that eats both plants and animals.
What are omnivores?
Patty cracked herself up with this cutesy name she came up with for the duo of Ghost and Lu, which in addition to being a portmanteau, also describes how close they've become.
What is Glue?
This Minnesota State Bird (not the mosquito) is a great diver, able to dive more than 150 feet feet down! Like dang, they're crazy.
What is a loon?
This was SpaceX's first prototype rocket to perform a landing flip maneuver; a feat somewhat lessened by the fact it crashed and exploded.
What is the SN8?
Remnants of the Incas still exist in this South American country.
What is Peru?
Marine iguanas are found only in these islands in the Pacific Ocean.
What are the Galapagos Islands?
Patty wanted to kick stuff because she was mad about getting second place, even though her legs were aching really badly. While I don't think second place is that bad, those two things make her, both literally and figuratively, one of these.
What is a sore loser?
These birds make a floating nest out of water plants, which is pretty weird... even among birds.
What are grebes?
In a crazy coincidence, one of the first people to receive Pfizer's vaccine in Great Britain shared a name with this famous British playwright.
Who is William Shakespeare?