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Trivia Questions

A grub is this soft, thick stage of metamorphosis of flies, wasps & beetles

The deepest diver among these birds is the emperor species of this, which may dive to 900 feet in the Antarctic waters

This cloudy atmosphere containing the nucleus of a comet may reach a diameter of 1 million miles

It's the fossilized resin from pine trees

(Sarah of the Clue Crew in Alaska) This bovine name is given to the process whereby huge chunks of ice break off glaciers, giving birth to icebergs

This property is the reason a rubber ball bounces & a stretched rubber band springs back to size

The one on the cockle is usually ribbed

(Jimmy of the Clue Crew at Cape Cod, Massachusetts) When lightning strikes the sand, it can melt & fuse it into a type of this, called fulgurite

Computers can model these, neap type & all, so sailors don't have to rely totally on tables

This sea, a still area in the Atlantic, is a spawning ground for most of the American & European eels