Geography Terms
First Names
Nursery Rhymes
Analogies
"S"
100

An underground layer of water-bearing permeable rock.

What is an aquifer?

100

Graham Bell

What is Alexander?

100

Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack jumped over this.

What is a candlestick?

100

Up : Down as

Open : _______

What is close?

100

Any underhand interference with production, work, etc., in a plant, factory, etc.

What is sabotage?

200

A type of wetland which accumulates deposits of dead plant material, especially mosses, known as peat.

What is a bog?

(mire, quagmire, or muskeg)

200

Darwin

What is Charles?

200

A tisket, a tasket. This was the coloring of the basket?

What is green and yellow?

200

Tired : Sleep, as

Hungry : ________

What is eat?

200

Egyptian political leader and president from 1970–81, he also won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1978.

Who is Sadat?

300

Any large, roughly circular depression, pit, or hole in the Earth's surface.

What is a crater?

300

Faraday

What is Michael?

300

Baa Baa black sheep had three bags of wool for these three people.

Who are the master, the dame and the little boy who lives down the lane?

300

8 : 24, as

12: ____

What is 36?

300

An American writer best known for his 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye.

Who is Salinger?

400

The broad lower course of a river where it enters the ocean and is affected by the tides.

What is an estuary?

400

Goodall

What is Jane?

400

In the popular nursery rhyme "I've Been Working on the Railroad", Dinah is in this room.

What is the kitchen?

400

Tree : lumber, as

Wheat : ______

What is flour?

400

A carved or engraved article, especially of whale ivory, whalebone, walrus tusks, or the like.

What is scrimshaw?

500

A persistent mass of dense ice that is constantly moving under its own weight.

What is a glacier?

500

Pasteur

What is Louis?

500

"Put on the skillet, put on the lid,

Momma's gonna make a little of" this.

What is short'nin' bread?

500

Carpenter : house, as

Composer : _______

What is symphony?

500

Historically and in literature this element is also called brimstone, which means "burning stone".

What is sulfur?

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