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Animals in Washington
Geography of Washington
100

Itch: He had an itch under his eyelid.

Noun.

100

This terminal punctuation ends a simple sentence.

Period

100

This horned ungulate can often be found in town - especially during hunting season.

Deer

100

The largest (landlocked) lake in Ferry County.

Curlew Lake

200

It: It ran away.

Pronoun

200

This terminal punctuation ends a interrogative sentence.

Question mark

200

This "whale" is a symbol of Puget Sound, a historic breeding area.

Orca

200
The mountain we paint our class numbers on.

Mt. Gibraltar

300

Armistice: The armistice stopped the war.

Noun

300

This piece of punctuation is used in a list, though in England, they drop the last one before the "and."

Comma

300
The largest ungulate in the Lower 48, bullwinkle.

Moose

300

The mountain range is visible looking west from Seattle on a sunny day, in the Olympic Peninsula

The Olympics

400
Go, Dog, Go: I love the book Go, Dog, Go.
Proper noun
400

This punctuation introduces a list.

Colon

400
A migratory fish that was blocked from the Upper Columbia. 

Salmon

400

These mountains are shared by Washington, Oregon, and Idaho...the location of Ernest Hemingway's death.

The Blue Mountains.

500

Does: Does he know where to go?

Verb

500

These three dots (periods) show when information has been omitted, particularly from a quote.

Ellipsis. 

500

An endangered species, in which there is less than 20 in existence in northeastern Washington.

Woodland Caribou.

500
This latitudinal parallel is the border between Washington and Canada.
The 49th Parallel