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Frozen character who sings the song "In Summer".
Who is Olaf?
100
Has hands and a face, but can't hold anything or smile.
What is a clock?
100
This wetland plant grows throughout Michigan. It's name comes from the resemblance of its flower to a part of a cat's body.
What is a cat tail?
Fun facts: The UM-Dearborn ethnobotany database, lists 254 uses of cattails by various tribes around the country. These include: food (the rhizomes were ground up and used as a flour and the shoots were eaten like asparagus); medicine (poultices were used to treat wounds, roots were used to treat kidney stones, the tufts were used to reduce chafing for infants, and more); and other purposes (basket making, mats, capes, thatching for tipis and more).
100
This small brown Michigan mammal gets its name from its short, white, fluffy tail.
What is a cottontail rabbit?
100
This red bird overwinters in Michigan and greets the spring with a 2-3 second string of "cheer, cheer, cheer, cheer."
What is a cardinal?
200
1964 blockbuster for which Julie Andrews won the Academy Award for Best Actress.
What is Mary Poppins?
200
Belongs to you, but your family and friends use it more.
What is your name?
200
This wetland plant is among the first to emerge in the spring. It produces heat to melt the snow so it can sprout and bloom.
What is a skunk cabbage?
200
This Michigan plant eater has hollow hairs that keep them so well insulated that they can bed down on a snowy night and not even melt the snow beneath them.
What is a white tailed deer?
200
One of Michigan's largest birds, it can fly nearly 60 miles per hour and roosts in trees at night.
What is a wild turkey?
300
Duo who created a string of popular Broadway musicals in the 1940s and 1950s, including Oklahoma!, Carousel, South Pacific, The King and I and The Sound of Music
Who were Rodgers and Hammerstein?
300
The only word in the dictionary that is spelled wrong.
What is "wrong"?
300
This wetland plant in northern Michigan catches and digests insects.
What is a pitcher plant?
300
This dog-like animal is found in nearly every county in Michigan and has been called the most vocal animal in North America.
What is a coyote?
300
This ground nesting bird sometimes pretends to have a broken wing to draw predators away from its nest.
What is a killdeer?
400
Person who was the voice of "Donkey" in the animated film Shrek.
Who is Eddie Murphy?
400
I am full of holes and still hold water.
What is a sponge?
400
This glossy black bird with red shoulders hangs out in wetlands and is often seen in stands of cattails in wet areas along roadways.
What is a red winged blackbird?
400
This native Michigan turtle prefers to live in dry, sandy, deciduous (trees that lost their leaves in winter) forsts.
What is a box turtle?
400
This mostly black bird lays its eggs in the next of other birds, leaving its young to be raised by "surrogate parents."
What is a cowbird?
500
The voice of "Elsa" in Frozen.
Who is Idina Menzel?
500
Follows you all of the time, and copies your every move, but you can not touch or catch it.
What is your shadow?
500
This large rodent is a natural engineer, building structures from sticks and small logs in waterways and creating marshes and swamps.
What is a beaver?
500
This member of the deer family became extinct in Michigan in the 1800s due to overhunting. Reintroduced in 1918, there are now over 1000 in northern Michigan.
What are elk? [what is an elk?]
500
This night hunting predatory bird has hearing so acute it can hear a mouse crawling under a foot of snow.
What is a great horned owl?
