MATH VOCABULARY
Raise a number to the third power, or a common form for ice & sugar
Cube
The big "wheel" of ride inventors
(6)
Ferris
Damages for this 2005 disaster have been estimated at $125 billion, not to mention the devastating loss of life
Hurricane Katrina
Condenser, crisper, butter compartment
Refrigerator
It can follow smoke, cherry & incendiary
Bomb
The average value of a set of numbers, or cruel
Mean
Jetsam's partner
(7)
Flotsam
Nothing to boast about, but the state with the most hazardous waste sites, more than 115, is this "Garden State"
New Jersey
Push-button, cartridge, spring, ballbearing tip
Pen
This fleshy growth atop a chicken's head comes in shapes such as buttercup & pea
Comb
The operation of combining numbers, or a wing appended to a building
Addition
Vulpine dance
(3,4)
Fox trot
In the U.S. in 1900 this was 46.3 for males & 48.3 for females; in 2000 it was 74.3 & 79.7
Life Expectancy
Transept, nave, aisle, chancel
Church
Completed in 1932, it bears the inscription "Here rests in honored glory an American soldier known but to God"
Tomb
An angle greater than 90 degrees but less than 180 degrees, or lacking sharpness of intellect
Obtuse
Boston hall of fame
(7)
Fanuil
On the new Airbus A380 plane, the overall length is 239 feet, while this is even longer at 261 feet
Wingspan
Title, key or legend, compass rose
Map
A prosthesis is an artificial one
Limb
A trigonometric function that equals sine/cosine, or a conversational digression
Tangent
It's spoken in Hameenlinna & Hyvinkaa
(7)
Finnish
Yikes! This visible surface of the sun below the chromosphere is about 10,000 degrees F.
Photosphere
Safety pin, pressurized canister, hose, foam
Fire extinguisher
Carpenters use this type of line with a weight on the end of it to determine a true vertical
Plumb