Leafy Legends
This process allows plants to turn sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide into food and oxygen.
Photosynthesis
This is the only mammal capable of true, powered flight.
Bat
Most of the Earth's "New" crust is created by these underwater structures.
Volcanoes
This percentage of the Earth’s surface is covered by water.
71%
This "gas" is the primary one humans are trying to reduce to slow down global warming.
Carbon Dioxide
This is the largest type of grass in the world; it can grow up to 3 feet in a single day.
Bamboo
This large marine mammal is the only one known to be a "strict vegetarian," eating only seagrass and algae.
Manatee or Dugong
This type of rock is formed from the cooling of molten magma or lava.
Igneous
Though the Earth is covered in water, only about this percentage is fresh water.
3%
This layer of the atmosphere protects us from the sun’s harmful ultraviolet (UV) radiation.
Ozone Layer
Often called the "Lungs of the World," this specific South American forest produces about 20% of the Earth's oxygen.
Amazon Rainforest
This fuzzy fruit is actually a "berry" that grows on a vine, but it shares its name with a flightless bird from New Zealand.
Kiwi
This is the name for the supercontinent that existed 300 million years ago before it broke apart into our current continents.
Pangea
This is the deepest known point in the Earth's oceans, located in the Western Pacific.
Mariana Trench
Coming from the Greek words for "Earth" and "Study," this is the scientific field dedicated to the origin, history, and structure of our solid planet.
Geology
This giant California tree species holds the record for being the tallest living thing on the planet.
Redwood
This clever marine mammal is known to sleep with one eye open and half of its brain awake so it can remember to surface for air.
Dolphin
This is the name for a "shooting star" that actually makes it through the atmosphere and hits the Earth's surface.
Meteorite
While people think of the Sahara, the world’s largest desert is actually this icy location, which is surrounded by the Southern Ocean.
Antarctica
This rhyming trio (3 R's) is the universal motto for waste management, listed in the specific order of most effective to least effective for the planet.
Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle
This is the only fruit that has its seeds on the outside; on average, there are about 200 of them per fruit.
Strawberry
These birds are the only ones capable of flying backward.
Hummingbird
These are the giant "puzzle pieces" of the Earth's crust that are constantly moving, causing earthquakes when they rub together.
Tectonic Plates
This is the only ocean on Earth named after a specific country.
Indian Ocean
While glass and aluminum can be recycled forever, this common material can usually only be recycled 7 to 9 times before its fibers get too short to stay together.
Paper