Trains
Plants
Dinosaurs
Space
Bugs & Creatures
100

train car known to hold logs

what is a log car

100

This common houseplant can grow new plants from tiny babies hanging off its leaves 

What is spider plant

100

Some scientists believe velociraptors were covered in this.  Other features included having a wishbone, three-toed feet, and bones that allowed them to fold their forelimbs in a similar way to bird wings.

What are feathers

100

At the exact center of this galaxy lies a supermassive black hole named Sagittarius A*.  It takes our Sun roughly 240 million years to complete one orbit around the galactic center.

What is The Milky Way

100

What is the process called when a caterpillar becomes a butterfly

Metamorphosis

200

term for when the train falls off the tracks

what is derailing

200

Bamboo is technically considered this type of plant

Grass

200

This dinosaur's name derives from Ancient Greek, and translates to "three-horned face."

What is Triceratops

200

This space telescope launched in 2021 to replace Hubble.

What is the James Webb Space Telescope

200

This sea creature pumps blue blood through all three of it's hearts, except when it's swimming, which is so exhausting that it temporarily stops it's hearts from beating.

Octopus
300

train car known to hold liquids

what is a tank car

300

This is the major category name given to plants in botany and gardening that live more than two years

What are Perennials 

300

This was the name of the supercontinent that existed during dino times.

What is Pangea

300

On this planet, the second from our sun, a single day is longer than a year.

What is Venus

300

These airborne bugs are incredibly effective hunters, catching about 95% of prey they pursue.

What are dragonflies.

400

used to control what direction the locomotive goes

what is the reverser or Johnson bar

400

All vascular plants produce these as part of their life cycle.  While some produce internally, ferns release them into the wind to reproduce directly.

What are spores

400

This dinosaur had a tail club strong enough to potentially break bones 

What is Ankylosaurus 

400
These two planets rain diamonds deep within their atmospheres

What are Nepture and Saturn.

400

This species of ant can create floating survival rafts during floods by linking their bodies together.  Thousands of worker ants interlock their legs and jaws in a matter of minutes to create a buoyant, waterproof structure, with the queen and larvae secured in the center 

What is the Fire Ant

500

This famous train route connects Moscow to Vladivostok and takes about a week to complete 

What is The Trans-Siberian Railway. 

500

Reclasssssssified into the Dracaena genus in 2017, this notoriously hard to kill plant was formerly part of this formerly classified as ________ trifasciata.

What is Sansevieria

500

This dinosaur is believed to have had over 500 replaceable teeth at once, and ikely grazed with its head constantly pointed downward, making it one of the strangest herbivores ever discovered 

What is the Nigersaurus

500

If you fell into a black hole, scientists believe you might experience a stretching effect nicknamed this 

Spaghettification

500

This tiny animal is famous for being the toughest creature on earth.  This "water bear" can even survive the vacuum of space and extreme temperatures and radiation.

What is a tardigrade