Mammals
This is a average temperature of a human.
What is 98.6 degrees?
All birds have feathers and a beak.
Name why these are so important.
Name 3 other characteristics all birds share.
What is feathers help birds fly, they keep birds warm, and they are water resistant so they help keep birds dry when it is raining or when they land on water. Beaks are used for moving things, eating, preening (how a bird cleans itself), feeding their young, and catch their prey?
What is they all have two legs, two wings, and a backbone. They all lay eggs and are warm-blooded.
This is what baby frogs or toads are called.
What is a tadpolpe?
This is how often the Olympic Games occur.
What is every 4 years?
This is where the President lives and works.
What is the White House?
This is what a vertebrate has.
What is a backbone?
Name 3 places where birds can live.
What are on the water, on land, where it is very cold or extremely hot? They also live on Tropical Islands, and in the Rainforest
Amphibians are cold-blooded. Cold-blooded means this...
What is the body temperature fluctuates (changes) as the temperature where they live changes? (If it is 60 degrees outside then the amphibian's body temperature will be 60 degrees.)
In the Summer and Winter Olympics these are awarded to the top 3 finishers in each event.
What are gold, silver, and bronze medals?
Gold for first place
Silver for second place
Bronze for third place
This is how often a president is elected?
What is every 4 years .
Fun Facts: A president can serve a maximum of 2 terms for a total of 8 years. A president be 35 years old, a natural-born citizen, and a US resident for 14 years. A president signs or vetoes bills, commands the military, and appoints judges on the Supreme Court.
This is the biggest mammal in the world.
This is the biggest land mammal.
This is the tallest mammal.
This is the smallest mammal.
This is the slowest mammal.
This is the fastest mammal.
100 extra point for each question answered correctly.
What is the blue whale?
What is the elephant?
What is a giraffe?
What is the hognose or bumblebee bat?
What is the two-toed sloth?
What is the cheetah?
Name 3 things birds eat?
What are insects, berries, nuts, fish, mices, rodents?
Amphibians can do this.
What is live on land and in water?
The Olympic Games are the oldest sporting traditions in the world. They are nearly 3,000 years old. This is where and when the first Olympic games were held.
What is in Ancient Greece in the city of Olympia in the year 776 BCE? They were held in honor of the Greek god Zeus.
This man was born on February 22, 1732 in Virginia. He was a surveyor, which meant he measured land. He was a commander of the Army and helped the Colonist gain Independence from England. He was the first president of the United States, but he never lived in the White House. He had a parrot named Polly that could talk. When he was a child, he admitted to his father that he chopped down a cherry tree. He is on the $1.00 bill
Who was George Washington?
This is how humans generate their body heat by this.
This is how humans warm themselves up when they are cold.
This is how humans cool themselves down.
200 extra points if you get all 3 answers.
What is by the food they eat. Their food is converted into energy?
What is by shivering? Shivering generates little bursts of heat.
What is by sweating?
This is the smallest bird on Earth.
What is the humming bird?
Fun Facts: They weigh less than a nickel. Their eggs are the size of a jelly bean. Their hear rates is more that 1,200 beats per minute. Their wings flap about 10-15 times in a single second and they make a buzzing sound because they move so quickly. When they dive they can reach speeds up to 60 mph. That is how fast a car drived on Rte. 93, 95 and 495.
Name some differences between a frog and a toad.
What is... a frog has smooth, moist skin and longer legs. Toads have dry, bumpy skin and short legs because they walk more often than they jump?
A Frenchman is credited with reviving the Olympic Games. He believed that sports could promote peace and unity amongst countries. This is when and where the first modern Olympic Games were held.
What is in 1896 in Athens, Greece?
This president was born on February 12, 1809. As a child, he lived in a log cabin. Before becoming president, he was a shopkeeper, postmaster, general store owner, soldier and lawyer. He was also a wrestler. (In 300 matches, he only lost once.) He was the 16th president of the United States. He helped us through the Civil War and issued his Emancipation Proclamation which put an end to slavery. He is the tallest president, standing at 6 feet 4 inches tall. He is on the $5.00 bill.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Name 4 characteristics of a mammal
What is they are vertebrates, they breathe air through their lungs, they are warm blooded, they have hair or fur, they give birth to live babies?
This is the largest bird on Earth.
What is the ostrich?
Fun Facts: An ostrich's eye is the size of a billard ball. They are the world's fastest animal on 2 legs. They can run up to 43 mph. Ostrich's cannot fly.
Frogs and toads go through the process of metamorphosis. Metamorphosis means this...
400 extra points if you can explain the process of metamorphosis.
What is...they morph or change into something else as time passes? When amphibians are born, they look like fish with tails and gills. After a while, they become tadpoles with 2 legs. The tadpole changes again and develop 2 more legs and a tail. They look like a small version of a frog or toad. Finally, they become a full grown frog or toad.
The most widely recognized symbol of the Olympic Games are the interlocking rings. This is the number of rings there are.
These rings represent the continents that participate in the Olympic Games. Name the continents.
Name the colors of the rings.
Name why these colors are used.
100 extra point for each question answered correctly.
What is 5?
What is North/South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Oceanania (the region that includes the islands of the Pacific Ocean and countries like Australia and New Zealand)?
What are blue, yellow, black, green and red?
What is because every national flag in the world has at least one of these colors?
This is when President's Day is celebrated.
What is the third Monday of February?