Archives for 2023

Quiz Time

(Answers in part #2)

• What is the tallest living tree in the world?
• How long does it take a single snowflake to fall from a cloud to the earth?

Going with the floe

Last November, hundreds of fishermen on Upper Red Lake in northern Minnesota nearly joined the fish they were there to catch! Ice broke from the shoreline to strand them on an ice floe with no way to get back to land. 

Year-around Roughing It. In Duluth, Minnesota?

For more than three years, fourteen-year-old Isaac Ortman hasn’t slept in his bed. This Minnesota teenager has camped out continuously (“weathered”?) in blizzards, thunderstorms, and minus 38-degree nights.

Why? “It’s just fun!” His bed varies from a packed snow quinzhee to a hammock. 

This summer, Isaac will attend a Boy Scout jamboree in West Virginia and also visit Washington, D.C. While there, he says he hopes President Joe Biden will invite him to sleep on the lawn of the White House.  

Sources: World Magazine, February 25, 2023, “Sleeping Streak,” page 25; “Minnesota Boy Has Slept Outside For More Than 1,000 Nights, No Matter The Weather,” Jan Wesner Childs, Weather Channel News, February 09, 2023 (retrieved April 25, 2023).

Quiz Answers

• A giant coastal redwood named Hyperion is over 380 feet tall. That is longer than a football field and about the height of a thirty-five-story building!

Source: Answers in Genesis (Kids Answers), Oct-Dec 2022, p. 29

• It takes about an hour for most snowflakes to fall to the earth.

Source: Answers in Genesis (Kids Answers), Jan-Mar 2023, p. 15