Fairy Tale Characters
She leaves a glass slipper behind at the royal ball.
Who is Cinderella?
The shaking of the Earth’s crust along faults causes this disaster, common in California.
What are earthquakes?
The star at the center of our solar system.
What is the Sun?
You strike this keyboard instrument’s strings internally by pressing keys.
What is a Piano?
This Italian city was the capital of the Roman Empire.
What is Rome?
This girl in red is warned not to talk to strangers on her way to Grandma’s house.
Who is Little Red Riding Hood?
A giant wave caused by underwater seismic activity.
What is a Tsunami?
Earth’s natural satellite that affects the ocean tides.
What is the Moon?
This brass instrument uses a slide instead of valves.
What is a Trombone?
This city along the Nile was once the center of ancient Egyptian power and culture.
What is Thebes?
A boy trades his family’s cow for magic beans in this tale.
What is Jack and the Beanstalk?
A funnel-shaped cloud that touches the ground and causes huge destruction.
What is a Tornado?
This term refers to a giant cloud of gas and dust where stars are born.
What is a Nebula?
This string instrument is the smallest and highest-pitched in the orchestra’s string family.
What is a Violin?
This ancient city in modern-day Iraq was ruled by King Nebuchadnezzar II.
What is Babylon?
In the Grimm version, her long hair is the only way into the tower where she’s trapped.
Who is Rapunzel?
This natural disaster forms when heat, drought, and wind combine — California knows them well.
What is a Wildfire?
The galaxy we live in — home to billions of stars including our Sun.
What is the Milky Way Galaxy?
Percussion instrument from Asia with metal bars struck by mallets, often used in classical and marching music.
What is a Marimba?
Once the capital of the Inca Empire, this city lies high in the Peruvian Andes.
What is Cuzco?
This story includes a spinning wheel, a curse at birth, and a princess known as “Briar Rose.”
Who is Sleeping Beauty?
A large-scale mass movement of rock, soil, and debris often triggered by heavy rain or quakes.
What is an Landslide?
This theory explains that the universe began from a rapidly expanding singularity about 13.8 billion years ago.
A double-reed woodwind instrument famous for its warm, rich tone — not to be confused with the clarinet.
What is an Oboe?
This ancient city in present-day Turkey served as the capital of the Hittite Empire.
What is Hattusha?