Looking for nature riddles? You've found the right page. We've collected 8 kid-safe nature riddles, ranging from quick "what am I" warm-ups to head-scratching brain-teasers. Each riddle includes the answer behind a tap, so kids get a chance to guess before peeking. Great as classroom starters, lunch-box surprises, or a family game.
88 nature riddles
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When you stop and look, you can always see me. If you try to touch you cannot feel me. I cannot move, but as you near me, I will move away from you. What am I?
Hint: When you stop and look…
Where on Earth do the winds always blow from the South?
Which country has been hidden in the paragraph below: The local habitat around a railway track can be very interesting. For example, supporting the track is a sleeper, under which you can find the lesser spotted great weevil.
Hint: Which country has been hidden in the paragraph below: The local habitat around a…
Who is it that rows quickly with four oars but never comes out from under his own roof?
Hint: Who is it that rows quickly with four oars but never comes out from under his ow…
You are on a ship, over the side hangs a rope ladder with half meter rungs. The tide rises a half meter per hour. At the end of five hours, how much of the ladder will remain above the water assuming that nine rungs were above the water when the tide began to rise?
Hint: You are on a ship…
You heard me before, Yet you hear me again, Then I die, ‘Till you call me again.
People kiss under me at Christmas. I am a small plant hung in doorways. What am I?
You pick it, You peel the outside, You cook the inside, You eat the outside, And throw away the inside. What am I?
Hint: You pick it…