TEXTING
IT'S "LIT"
THE NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM
10-LETTER WORDS
Final Jeopardy!
200

SMS stands for this "message service", so keep your text brief

short

200

Adept with an axe, Abraham Lincoln earned the nickname the "rail" this

splitter

200

The original idea for this shrine in the Black Hills of South Dakota was to sculpt faces of Native American & Old West heroes

Mount Rushmore

200

Rudimentary, or a type of school for young students

elementary

200

SCIENCE & MATH VOCABULARY

These 2 words are just 1 letter different; one is a whirlpool & the other a geometry term for a meeting point

400

In addition to emoji, you can use kaomoji, a Japanese type of this, which also starts with "emo"

emoticons

400

You've probably used this in a lab or science class



litmus paper

400

Special observances are held annually at this battlefield on Memorial Day & November 19

Gettysburg

400

Term for a movie based on a novel or another written work

an adaptation

400

These 2 words are just 1 letter different; one is a whirlpool & the other a geometry term for a meeting point

vertex & vortex

600

This singer says her husband Russell Brand broke up with her via text message on New Year's Eve

Katy Perry

600

It means to move lightly & swiftly from one place to another

flit

600

This national park has the world's greatest concentration of geysers

Yellowstone

600

The skill of choosing a path for a ship or aircraft to its destination

navigation

800

Text "IRL" & it stands for this, the opposite of the imaginary Internet world

in real life

800

At home, these services, like water, gas & electricity really add up

utilities

800

This Florida park is the largest subtropical wilderness in the United States

the Everglades

800

A person with his or her thumb out, once more common on our highways than today

a hitchhiker

1000

While working for Microsoft, Dean Hachamovitch invented this texting feature that suggests words for you

autocorrect

1000

It's another name for a courtroom lawyer

litigator

1000

The monument seen here that commemorates Perry's victory rises 352 feet above this lake


Lake Erie

1000

Like the tails of certain monkeys, a giraffe's tongue is said to be this, adapted for seizing & grasping

prehensile