Spiders & Snakes
State's Highest Points
Skidmore
Crossword Clues "W"
Biology
1
Orb weaver spiders have 5 spinnerets for extruding this substance used to make webs
Silk
1
Found in a small grove of trees, 1,257-foot Hoosier Hill
Indiana
1
What is Skidmore's address?
815 North Broadway
1
Japanese horseradish
(6 letters)
Wasabi
1
You give me this bone, the head of which forms a ball-&-socket joint with the hip
Fermur
2
Thamnophis is the genus of these snakes, which have stripes resembling bands used to secure clothing
Garter
2
In Alaska, this mountain peak, of course
Denali
2
Who is the founder of what would become Skidmore College?
Lucy Scribner
2
"Blemish"ed word for one who's overanxious
(9 letters)
worrywart
2
Some of these smallest blood vessels are so tiny that only one blood cell can pass through at a time
Capillaries
3
Latrodectus geometricus, the brown this, has venom twice as powerful as that of its notorious black cousin
Brown Widow
3
Mount Greylock rising above the Berkshires
Massachusetts
3
Skidmore and NYU both have large buildings or programs named after what family?
Tisch
3
Facing toward a gale, or a group of islands in the Caribbean
(8 letters)
Windward
3
The science of naming & classifying organisms is called this, though the IRS has little to do with it
Biology
4
Lycosidae is the family of these hairy hunting spiders named for another hairy hunter
Wolf
4
Wheeler Peak in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains
New Mexico
4
What progenitor institution to Skidmore was founded in 1903?
Young Women's Industrial Club
4
From German, for a travel urge (10 letters)
Wanderlust
4
This, the beginning of growth for a seed, requires 3 basic elements:
water, oxygen & the right temperature
Germination
5
The coral snake is deadly;
the similar-looking scarlet ______ is harmless
(Scarlet) Kingsnake
5
In Hawaii, this dormant volcano whose name means "white mountain" because it gets snow in winter
Mauna Kea
5
What decade saw the first full 10 years on the new campus and as well as Skidmore becoming co-ed?
1970's?
5
Peanut butter crisp candy bar made by Hershey, or smashed together term for a nonspecific object
(15 letters)
Watchamacallit
5
Latin for "whip" gives us the name of this hairlike appendage, used for locomotion by most bacteria
Flagellum