Wildlife Identification
This mammal can starve within 4 hours while awake and is the smallest mammalian predator in North America.
What is "shrews"?
This large island nation lies off the southeastern coast of Africa.
What is Madagascar?
In 2021, a geological study of this planet, named for the Roman goddess of love, discovered that parts of its rocky surface move in patterns similar to ocean pack ice on Earth.
What is Venus?
This character voiced by Alex Rochon has a fascination with bees. He has been amazed by them in a stream of the game Peak, as well as when he was in a therapy setting with a toy box character.
Who is Caine?
This company introduced the first hand-held calculator in 1967.
What are Texas Instruments?
Known for its distinctive bright red head, this bird is the largest woodpecker native to Minnesota.
What is a “pileated woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus)”?
This is the largest country in Africa by land mass.
What is Algeria?
This gemstone is a hydrated amorphous form of silica and has types such as Fire, Black, and Boulder. It is the birthstone for the month of October and a precious one of these often displays iridescence.
What is Opal?
Bees cannot see the color red, but can see this type of light. Because they can see this type of light, they can see intricate ultraviolet light patterns on flower petals that humans cannot.
What is ultraviolet light?
This person said, "And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make." Found on the Beatles 1969 album "Abbey Road," the sentiment is quintessentially Beatles and true to the 1960s anti-war movement, which urged, "Make love, not war."
Who is Paul McCartney?
This mammal has iron in their teeth enamel and up to 23,000 hairs per square centimeter.
What is an “American Beaver (Castor canadensis)”?
This is the southernmost point of Africa.
What is Cape Agulhas? (not Cape of Good Hope)
This “I” type of rock is igneous rock formed when magma is forced into older rock deposits at Earth’s crust. It is also an English word meaning causing disruption by annoying or unwanted interruption.
What is Intrusive rock?
This Greek God has been associated with bees frequently. Some state that the cave in which he was hidden in to protect him from his father, Kronos, was the home of sacred bees, and the bees fed him honey themselves. Others say that Melissae, the nymph who was shown the use of honey by the bees, nursed him, feeding him honey and milk.
Who is Zeus?
During the 1990’s, this candy bar used Bart Simpson as a spokes-character in their TV ads.
The fourth largest canid native to Minnesota, after the gray wolf (Canis lupus), coyote (Canis latrans), and red fox (Vulpes vulpes).
What is “gray fox" (Urocyon cineroargenteus)”?
Lake Victoria is shared by these three African countries.
What is Tanzania, Uganda, and Kenya?
USGS is a bureau within the U.S. Department of the Interior with the motto "science for a changing world." The group is headquartered in Reston, Virginia and is a fact-finding organization with no regulatory responsibility. Give the full name of this group.
What is United States Geological Survey?
This was the first civilization that practiced organized beekeeping, starting around 2,500 BCE.
Who are the Egyptians?
This popular tea blend is named for a British Prime Minister.
What is Earl Grey?
The only marsupial native to North America. (Marsupials are animals that carry their young in pouches and are commonly found in Australia).
What is the Virginia opossum (Didelphis virginiana)?
This African country was formerly called Rhodesia.
What is Zimbabwe?
Geologists are theorizing that a Nordic island nation, known for its volcanoes, geysers, and hot springs, may be part of a giant subterranean continent known by this name? Its name is kind of like the country with capital Reykjavik, but with a couple extra letters at the end.
What is Icelandia?
Honeybees are able to taste with this part of their body. The claws on this part of a honeybee are especially attuned to salt.
What is feet?
This was the favorite daughter of King Lear.
Who is Cordelia?