EasyNature
"You feel me but cannot see me. I can be gentle or violent. I have no home yet I travel everywhere. I carry seeds, scatter leaves, and shape mountains over time. What am I?"
Answer
The Wind
Explanation
Wind is invisible but felt on skin. It ranges from a gentle breeze to a hurricane. It disperses seeds, strips trees of leaves, and over millennia erodes and sculpts entire mountain ranges.
This is an easy riddle in the Nature category — Riddles about the natural world, animals, weather and geography.
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