Habitats
This, the world's largest rainforest, is home to several million species, including the jaguar & the capybara
the Amazon
A dangerous storm that can form over tropical waters; a hurricane is one type
typhoon (or cyclone)
Kentucky's first commercial mine for this fuel opened in Muhlenberg County in 1820
coal
An April 1985 attempt to make the regular kind of this soda taste more like the diet kind led to marketing disaster
Coke
Sing like an Alpine mountaineer
(5)
Yodel
These slow movers, like the 2-toed type, live up in the forest canopy; they do come down about once every 6 days
sloths
Grammatically, the song title "You Are Loved By Her, Yeah Yeah Yeah" would be in this voice
passive
NASA's giant Saturn V rocket was powered by more than 700,000 gallons of hydrogen & oxygen in this state
liquid
In April 1906 an earthquake hit this U.S. city followed by a massive fire & the loss of 3,000 lives
San Francisco
It can precede fever, jacket & pages
(6)
yellow
The state animal of Kansas is the American type of this that roamed the Great Plains
bison (or buffalo)
Many an old westerner packed his pistol in the Mexican loop style of this
holster
Ireland & Finland are among the world's leading producers of this spongy plant fuel
peat
Major League Baseball's first of these postponed the opening of the 1972 season to April 15
strike
A fungus for fermentation & leavening
(5)
yeast
The white winter coat of the Arctic fox lets it sneak up on prey in its natural habitat, these treeless plains of the Arctic
the tundra
For a standup comic, it's a member of the audience who keeps interrupting
a heckler
Methane is the main component of CNG, this vehicle fuel
compressed natural gas
In April 1513 Ponce de Leon landed in what he named Florida, searching for this legendary spring
Fountain of Youth
School for future rabbis
(7)
yeshiva
In the African savanna, dried grass & dead wood are decomposed by these insects to make mounds way taller than anthills
termites
The hazelnut is also called this, for a saint on whose feast day it is often ripe
filbert
"Bio" this, made from recycled cooking oil & other fats, can be used in most vehicles built to run on the regular version
diesel
Yuri Gagarin
Brute in "Gulliver's Travels"
(5)
a Yahoo