Answer:
What has 4 fingers and a thumb but isn't alive?
Crooked as a rainbow and slick as a plate, ten thousand horses can't pull me straight. What am I?
I am one with eight to spare, lest I lose my one. I'm not a number. What am I?
I am the only thing that always tells the truth. I show off everything that I see. I come in all shapes and sizes. What am I?
I am flora, not fauna. I am foliage, not trees. I am shrubbery, not grass. What am I?
Give it food and it will live, give it water and it will die.