Amazing Animals
Cheetahs are the fastest land animals in the world. They can run as fast as a car on the highway. However, they can only run this fast for a very short time before they get tired.
How long can a cheetah run at top speed?
What is a short time?
Mars is often called the Red Planet because of its rusty dust. It has the biggest volcano in the whole solar system. Scientists send robots called "rovers" to drive on the surface.
What is the nickname for the planet Mars?
What is the Red Planet?
The Amazon Rainforest is full of tall trees and lots of rain. It is home to millions of colorful bugs, frogs, and birds. The trees produce a lot of the oxygen that humans breathe.
What does the rainforest produce that humans need?
What is oxygen?
Your heart is a strong muscle that beats all day long. It pumps red blood to every single part of your body. If you run very fast, your heart will beat faster.
What does the heart pump?
What is blood?
Chocolate comes from the beans of a cacao tree. Long ago, people drank chocolate as a bitter and spicy drink. Today, we add milk and sugar to make it sweet.
Question: How did people consume chocolate long ago?
What is as a drink?
Chameleons are lizards that can change color to match their surroundings. They use their long, sticky tongues to catch bugs to eat. Their eyes can look in two different directions at the exact same time.
What do chameleons use to catch their food?
What is a tongue?
The Sun is actually a giant star made of hot, burning gas. It gives Earth light and heat so that plants can grow. Without the Sun, our planet would be frozen and dark.
The text says the Sun is made of what?
What is hot gas?
The Pyramids of Giza were built long ago in the desert of Egypt. They were made as tombs for ancient kings called pharaohs. These giant triangles are made of very heavy stone blocks.
Who were the Pyramids built for?
Who are Kings (or Pharaohs)?
: An adult human has 206 hard bones in their body. Bones give your body its shape and protect your soft insides. Without a skeleton, you would be floppy like a jellyfish.
Question: What would happen if you had no skeleton?
What is you would be floppy?
Pizza was invented in the country of Italy many years ago. The first pizza had red tomato sauce, white cheese, and green basil. These colors were chosen to match the Italian flag.
Question: Where was pizza invented?
Where is Italy?
Emperor Penguins live in very cold places like Antarctica. They cannot fly, but they are excellent swimmers in the ocean. They waddle side-to-side when they walk on the ice.
The text says penguins are birds, but they cannot do what action?
What is fly?
The Moon does not make its own light like a star does. It shines bright white only because the Sun reflects off of it. Humans first walked on the Moon in the year 1969.
Why does the Moon shine?
What is the Sun reflects off it?
The Great Wall of China is the longest wall in the world. It was built a long time ago to keep enemies out of the country. It is so long that it took many years to finish building it.
Why was the Great Wall built?
What is to keep enemies out?
: Your brain is the boss of your entire body. It tells your legs to walk and your lungs to breathe. It is protected by a hard bone in your head called the skull.
What bone protects the brain?
What is the skull?
Honey is a unique food because it never goes bad. Bees make it using nectar they gather from flowers. Scientists have found jars of honey in ancient tombs that is still good to eat.
What insect makes honey?
What is a bee?
The blue whale is the largest animal to ever live on Earth. Its tongue weighs as much as a whole elephant. Its heart is the size of a small car.
According to the text, how big is the blue whale's heart?
What is the size of a small car?
Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar system neighborhood. It has a giant storm called the Great Red Spot. This storm has been spinning and raging for hundreds of years.
What is the Great Red Spot?
What is a storm?
Antarctica is the coldest continent on Earth and is at the bottom of the globe. It is covered in thick ice and snow all year long. No people live there permanently, only scientists visiting to study the weather.
Who are the only people who visit Antarctica?
Who are scientists?
: When you take a deep breath, your lungs fill up with air. They take oxygen from the air and put it into your blood. You have two lungs located inside your chest.
Question: How many lungs does a person have?
What is two?
Corn was first grown by Native Americans thousands of years ago. It can be eaten on the cob or ground into flour. It is also heated up to make popcorn.
Question: Who were the first people to grow corn?
Who are Native Americans?
Bats are nocturnal animals, which means they are awake at night. They sleep hanging upside down in caves during the day. They use sound echoes to help them fly in the dark.
Based on the text, what does the word "nocturnal" mean?
What is awake at night?
Astronauts wear special heavy suits to breathe while they are in space. There is no gravity in space, so they float around inside their ship. They have to exercise every day to keep their muscles strong.
Why do astronauts float in space?
What is because there is no gravity?
A volcano looks like a mountain but has a deep hole at the top. When it erupts, hot lava and ash come out of the top. Some volcanoes are on land, but some are under the ocean.
What comes out of a volcano when it erupts?
What is lava (or ash)?
Skin is actually the largest organ in the human body. It holds everything inside and keeps germs out of your body. When you get a small cut, your skin heals itself.
Question: What is the job of the skin?
What is keeping germs out (or holding everything inside)?
Long ago, people in China mixed milk and rice in the snow. The snow froze the mixture to make a treat. This was the very first type of ice cream.
Question: What did people use to freeze ice cream long ago?
What is snow?