Answer:
Take one out and scratch my head I am now black but once was red.
What can be underwater, under fire, on fire and taking water all at the same time?
A leathery snake, with a stinging bite. I'll stay coiled up, unless I must fight.
Twigs and spheres and poles and plates. Join and bind to reason make.
What surrounds the world, yet dwells within a thimble?
They are many and one, they wave and they drum, Used to cover a state, they go with you everywhere.