4-Letter Words
A flash of lightning.
What is bolt?
The long-term heating of Earth's climate due to human activities.
What is global warming?
This punctuation mark is also known as an interrogation point.
What is a question mark?
A devastating earthquake and fire in this city in 1906 caused $400 million in damages.
What is San Francisco?
In what country can you visit Macchu Picchu?
What is Peru?
Term for a group of wolves.
What is pack?
The primary greenhouse gas emitted through human activity.
What is carbon dioxide?
Slowly, sadly, warmly, and rapidly are all examples of this type of word.
What is an adverb?
This Connecticut native was a general in both the American and British armies during the Revolutionary War.
Who is Benedict Arnold?
Less than 5,000 square miles in area, Gambia is the smallest country on this continent.
What is Africa?
To hit hard, or a snail-like organism.
What is slug?
The process by which plants use sunlight to create food from carbon dioxide and water.
What is photosynthesis?
A comma used after the second to last item in a list of three or more items.
What is an Oxford comma?
In 1817, Congress divided a territory that became these two states that are practically mirror images of each other.
What are Alabama and Mississippi?
What country has the most natural lakes?
What is Canada?
Another name for a killer whale.
What is an orca?
Starting at ground level and extending about 6 miles above sea level, this is the lowest level of our atmosphere.
What is the troposphere?
In the sentence "Sailing is fun," sailing is this, also called a verbal noun.
What is a gerund?
In 1945, scientists in this state witnessed the detonation of the world's first atomic bomb.
What is New Mexico?
How many U.S. states touch the Pacific Ocean?
What is 5? (Alaska, Washington, Oregon, California, Hawaii)
Partially opened; a door, for example.
What is ajar?
Los Angeles is known for having a thick layer of this brown haze over its skyline, a product of air pollutants reacting with sunlight.
What is photochemical smog?
The "in 1969," in the sentence "Neil Armstrong made history as the first man to step on the moon in 1969" is an example of what common grammar mistake?
What is a misplaced modifier?
In the first census, 1790, this was the most populous state.
What is Virginia?
Brazil shares a border with every South American country, except these two.
What are Chile and Ecuador?