Rivers
Boning Up
"Big" Stuff
Astronomy

Animals
100

As the central river artery, this is one of the world’s busiest waterways:

The Mississippi River

100

The name of this condition that affects mostly women literally means “porous bone”:

Osteoporosis 

100

Jazz musicians & jockeys helped give New York City this nickname:

The Big Apple

100

Astronomers divide the sky into 88 of these star groups:

Constellations

100

The African rain forests are the natural habitat of these largest apes:

Gorillas

200

Flowing westward, this river has a drainage basin that covers seven states

The Colorado River

200

 Your false ribs are so called because unlike your true ribs, they aren’t attached to this breastbone:

The sternum

200

If you’re under this, you’re at the circus:

The Big Top

200

Which planet has the largest ocean?

Jupiter

200

This largest wild cat of the Americas looks similar to a leopard

Jaguar

300

Although its ultimate source is still debated, this river flows into the Atlantic:

The Amazon River
300

The stapes is the body's smallest bone. Where is it located?

The inner ear

300

 Digit also known as the hallux:

The Big Toe

300

At about 600 miles in diameter, Ceres is the largest first discovered of these minor planets:

Asteroids

300

The red kangaroo is among the largest of these pouched mammals

Marsupials 

400

 From two small sources, this river flows to the North Sea:

The Rhine River

400

This bone with a ball-&-socket joint at one end is about 1/4 of your height:

The Femur

400

 In France this feature of the night sky is known as “le casserole”:

The Big Dipper

400

Which constellation represents a hunter and weapons?

Orion

400

One of these mammals that inhabits the East Indies has a wingspan of over 5 1/2 feet

Bat

500

The head of this river is dry for much of the year and flows to an estuary on the North Sea:

The Thames River

500

This fatty substance inside the bones is a major site of blood cell production:

Marrow

500

Rhyming nickname of Boston’s Interstate 93 construction project:

The Big Dig

500

A galactic cloud of dust & gas, its name comes from the Latin for "cloud"

Nebula

500

This spiny relative of the starfish is sometimes referred to as a sea hedgehog

SEA URCHIN

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