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Riddles By Sadaf Afreen
1: The person, who makes it, sells it. The person who buys it never uses it and the person who uses it doesn’t know who they are. What is it? 2. What always runs but walks, often murmurs, talks, has a bed but sleeps, has a mouth but eats?
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3. I never was, am always to be. No one ever saw me, nor ever will. And yet I am the confidence of all, to live and breathe on this terrestrial ball. What am I? 4. At night they come without being fetched. By day they are lost without being stolen. What are they?
5. There was a green house. Inside the green house there was a white house. Inside the white house there was a red house. Inside the red house there were lots of babies. What is it? 6: What has a head, a tail and has no legs? 7. All about, but cannot be seen, Can be captured, cannot be held, No throat, but can be heard?
8: Until I am measured I am not known, yet how you miss me. When I have flown? 9: No sooner spoken than broken. What is it? 10. You use a knife to slice my head and weep beside me when
I am dead. What am I? 11. From the beginning of eternity To the end of time and space To the beginning of every end And the end of every place. What am I? 12. My life can be measured in hours; I serve by being devoured. Thin, I am quick; fat, I am slow. Wind is my foe. What am I? 13. I fly, yet I have no wings. I cry, yet I have no eyes. Darkness follows me; lower light I never see. 14: I have hands that wave at you, Though I never say goodbye. It’s cool for you to be with me, Especially when I say, “HI.” What am I?
Answers 1. 4. 7. 10. 13.
Coffin The stars The wind Onion A cloud
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2. 5. 8. 11. 14.
A river A watermelon Time The letter ‘e’ An electric fan
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Tomorrow A penny Silence A candle
Sea bird:
“Atlantic Puffins” Atlantic puffins are also known as ‘sea parrots’ or ‘clowns of the sea,’. Their colouring is black and white like a penguin, but the large, brightly-colour beaks, make them different from the penguin. Atlantic puffins are in fact not related to penguins at all. They are small seabirds that belong to the Alcidae (auk) family.
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Features: • The Atlantic Puffin is mainly black above and white below, with grey to white cheeks, red-orange legs and colourful beak. • It is a short and chunky diving sea bird about 10 inches in length and wingspan of 20-24 inches. • A puffin weighs about the same as a can of Coke. • Atlantic Puffins live most of their lives at sea, resting on the waves, in the North Atlantic Ocean. Most of the puffins are found in Iceland. • They are excellent swimmers; they usually stay underwater for only 20 or 30 seconds and use their wings as the paddles. • Puffins can fly, beating their wings 100-400 beats per minute to go high.
Interesting facts:
• Puffins lay only 1 egg a year. • They often live 20 years or more. The oldest known puffin lived to be 36 years. • A puffin communicates information in its manner of walking. If the puffin is walking rapidly with its head down it is saying, “I am just passing through and don’t mean any trouble.” • Each year, as a puffin grows older, its beak grows bigger. • A puffin’s diet comes from the icy depths of the ocean, they eat small fish. • The largest recorded number of fish in a puffin’s beak at once was 62. • Currently eight islands around the world are named Puffin Island – because of large numbers of puffins that live there. • Global population of Puffins is estimated to be about 6 million birds. Young Nation-June
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