Daily Sponges
10/3: On average, how many eggs will a hen lay in a year?
10/4: What three planets in our solar system show signs of oxygen in their atmospheres?
10/5: Which of the following has more bones? A baby, teen, or adult.
10/9: What percent of grocery items contain corn in some processed form?
10/10: How does popcorn pop?
10/11: What’s a corn farmer’s favorite breed of dog?
10/12: Why did the corn stalk get mad at the farmer?
10/15: The hottest temperature ever recorded was 134 degrees F. Where was it?
10/22: In the month of May, which ten year old will grow faster? Tim in the US or Tom in Australia?
10/23: How many feet does food travel in the average adult’s digestive tract? 10, 20, or 30 ft.?
10/24: If you run 375M., how many cm. have you ran?
10/25: Which contains more water? blood, brain, or skeleton?
10/26: Which is likely to last longer? The hair on your head or your eyelashes?
10/31: What is the difference between a solution and a mixture?
11/1: If you could travel anywhere in the world, where would you go? Why?
11/2: What is your favorite cereal? Why?
11/6: When do you think it will snow for the first time?
11/7: If two objects have the same volume, do they have the same mass?
11/8: You have a cube with a length of 22cm., what is the volume of the cube?
11/9: You throw away the outside, cook the inside, eat the outside, and throw away the inside. What are you eating?
11/13: What percent of the world’s population lives in the United States? 6%, 12%, 18%
11/14: What does the word enervate mean?
11/15: What is the most embarrassing thing that has ever happened to you?
11/16: What would be a fun field trip or field day?
11/19: What are your Thanksgiving plans?
11/26: What is the highest wind speed ever recorded? 187MPH, 231MPH, 316MPH
12/4: If you could pile up all the food you will eat in a lifetime, how many tons will it be? a. 10 b. 100 c. 1000
12/5: About how long does it take sunlight to reach the Earth? a. 8 sec. b. 8 min. c. 8 hours
12/6Which insect has been used to treat baldness? A. Honey bees B. Blister beetles C. Lacewings
12/7: What is your favorite telitubby?
12/10: What is the fastest running insect?
12/11: Fleas would win a gold medal for jumping at the Insect Olympics. How high can they jump? A. 50 times their body length B. 100 times their body length C. 200 times their body length
12/12: Cats have over 100 vocal sounds. How many does a dog have?
12/13: How hot is lightning?
12/14: If it is 2:30 pm in Havana, Illinois, what time is it in Los Angeles, California? A. 11:30 am B. 12:30 C. 1:00 pm D. 2:00 pm
12/17: What does it mean when a meteorologist says that, with the windchill, it is -15°F?
12/18: Which ocean is the deepest? A. Arctic B. Indian C. Pacific D. Atlantic
12/19: What is your favorite holiday? Why?
1/2: What was the most fun thing you did over vacation?
1/3: What percent of the world’s population lives North of the equator?
1/4: True or False. A duck’s quack doesn’t echo.
1/7: If you saved all the skin you shed in a year, would it weigh as much as a tennis ball, baseball, or basketball?
1/8: Which of the following is the oldest mountain range on Earth? A. Rockies (in North America) B. Andes (in South America) C. Highlands (in Scotland)
1/10: What are two things you learned from the video yesterday?
1/11: What is your favorite ski mountain?
1/15: Where are the ears on a cricket?
1/16: If you were to stretch a standard slinky out flat, how long, in feet, would it be?
1/17: Which of the 50 states has never had an earthquake?
1/22: What percent of the world’s energy does the US consume?
1/23: What is the official state insect for Illinois? A. Ladybug B. Honey Bee C. Firefly D. Monarch butterfly
1/24: Which planet has a year of 88 days?
1/25: Does a waxing moon look thinner or wider as each day passes?
1/28: About how many hours does an adult dream if he sleeps for 7.5 hours: 1.5, 3, or 5 hours?
1/29: True/False. Mercury is the only metal that is liquid at room temperature.
1/30: Who proposed the law of motion that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction? A. Albert Einstein B. Isaac Newton C. Galileo
1/31: When magma cools and hardens, does it form... igneous rock, metamorphic rock, sedimentary rock?
2/1: Mary's father has four daughters. Their names are Nana, Nene, and Nunu. What is the fourth daughter's name?
2/4: Are Europe and North America drifting closer together of further apart?
2/6: Which of the following has the longest recorded lifespan? A.Termite B.Chimpanzee C.Indian Elephant D.Freshwater Oyster
2/7: On average, how many holes are in a normal-sized kitchen sponge?
2/8: What are Alex and Dylan's middle names?
2/11: If the temperature were 30oF, how many inches of snow will be produced by one inch of precipitation?
2/25: What were three things you did over break?
2/26: On average, do you have more breaths or heartbeats in a lifetime?
2/27: What is a tornadoes favorite game?
2/28: Which of the following means rain when added to a cloud's name? A. Cirrus B. Stratus C. Nimbus D. Alto
2/29: What is the longest river in the world?
3/3: What instrument is used to measure wind speed?
3/4: How many barrels of oil (42G.) does the US import each day?
3/6: Which country has the most violent weather on Earth?
3/7: How cold does it get at the South Pole?
3/10: What percent of all plants and animals live in the ocean?
3/11: One organ in your body uses more energy, or 5% more oxygen, than your heart. Which organ is this?
3/12: How much saliva does the average person produce each day?
3/13: What is the least dense substance that exists?
3/14: What is the only rock that floats on water?
3/17: True or False? Air becomes liquid at about -190 degrees Celcius.
3/18: What two great American cities are destined to merge?
3/20: How far is it to the center of the Earth?
3/24: What is the most earthquake-prone state in the U.S.?
3/26: What are five of the ten deadliest animals?
3/27: What is the largest desert in the world?
3/28: One nautical mile is equivalent to how many land miles?
3/31: How many species of insects are there?
4/1: How many languages are spoken in Africa?
4/2: When was the first browser for the World Wide Web released?
4/4: On average, the human eye blinks how many times a year?
4/8: How tall is Chris King?
4/9: What should our team color be for tomorrow?
4/11: What percentage of the world's commercial pineapples come from Hawaii?
4/28: What were two of the most fun things you did over vacation?
4/29: Which was invented first? The microwave, light bulb, or telephone.
4/30: What does the term dinosaur mean? Terrible, giant, or old lizard.
5/1: Does a strawberry look red because it absorbs or reflects red light?
5/5: What is another term for spring?
5/6: Which planet has the shortest day?
5/7: How fast does a tsunami move in the deep ocean?
5/8: Which greenhouse gas is over 20x more effective in trapping heatin the atmosphere than Carbon Dioxide?
5/9: For what reason, other than hearing, do jackrabbits have long ears?
5/12: Why do dolphins jump out of the water?
5/13: How hot is Saturn's core, in celcius?
5/14: The female flea consumes _______ times her own body weight in blood daily.
5/15: A jiffy is an actual unit of time. One jiffy is equivalent to how many milliseconds?
5/16: What is a group of kangaroos called?
5/19: Who was the first left-handed president to serve two terms?
5/21: Which scientist would study rocks and minerals?
5/22: Dry ice is the solid state of what gas?
5/23: Which common household item is made from the elements sodium and chlorine?
5/27: As of February 18, 2004, what was the global population?
5/28: What country has the highest rate of obese citizens?
5/29: How did the idea of velcro come into existence?
5/30: How long is a giraffe's neck? How many vertebrae do they have?
6/5: How long does it take the average person to fall asleep?
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