Fossil Fuels
Poetry
Words and Such
States and things
100
This is a slippery liquid made from petroleum used for fuel. Sometimes called "black gold"
What is oil?
100
This is a figurative comparison that does not use 'like' or 'as'.
What is a simile?
100
This is a statement that is supported by evidence.
What is a claim?
100
This is the state that is directly above Texas.
What is Oklahoma?
200
This was the first major oil extraction of this size in the US and it happened at this hill by Beaumont Texas.
What is Spindletop Hill?
200
This is an exaggerated statement not meant to be taken literally.
What is hyperbole?
200
Hazardous is a synonym for this word that also has three syllables and starts with a D__________.
What is dangerous?
200
This is the state with the largest population: over 39 million people call it home.
What is California?
300
This combustible black rock is a fossil fuel that was eventually replaced by oil to power trains and steam engines in general.
What is coal?
300
The following is an example of what:
When I sat in the chair, it screamed and screeched.
What is personification?
300
This is an argument that is meant to show that an original claim is not true.
What is a counterclaim?
300
Texas joined this side in the Civil War.
What is the Confederacy/ The South?
400
The crew at Spindletop was able to dig through the sand using this new tool.
What is a rotary Drill.
400
The following is an example of what;
I played perilously picking pears in the playground.
What is alliteration?
400
This word, that starts with a C_____, can apply to places like Houston, New York City and Los Angeles and means "containing people from many places and cultures.
What is cosmopolitan?
400
This holiday, first started in Texas, celebrates the freedom of African Americans from slavery after the Civil War.
What is Juneteenth?
500
This was the wooden frame used to support drilling equipment for oil extraction.
What is a derrick?
500
How many stanzas in the following poem?
What is four stanzas?
500
This absorbs and emits radiant energy, and is caused by Co2 emissions from fossil fuels resulting in climate change. two words _______ __________but the first one is a compound word.
What are greenhouse gases?
500
This city in Texas is home to the Alamo.
What is San Antonio?