Animals Starting with Vowels
These great apes, once native to the rainforests of Indonesia and Malaysia, are now found only in parts of Borneo and Sumatra.
What are orangutans?
She most famously went down the rabbit hole.
Who is Alice?
This punctuation is a longer pause than a comma but shorter than a period.
What is a semi-colon?
This province is immediately west of Ontario.
What is Manitoba?
This body of water is the largest on Earth.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
There are three distinct species of these majestic creatures: African Savanna, African Forest, and Asian.
What are elephants?
This writer often has dark twists at the end of her stories, the most famous of which is "The Lottery", in which the character of Tessie is stoned to death.
Who is Shirley Jackson?
This term identifies joining words.
What are conjunctions?
This country is immediately south of the U.S.A.
What is Mexico?
This river forms part of the border between Quebec and New York State.
What is the St. Lawrence River?
Parts of Narwals were often sold as belonging to these mythical creatures.
What are unicorns?
This man was hunted by General Zaroff.
Who was Rainsford?
These are words that are shortened and joined by apostrophes.
What are contractions?
This continent is immediately to the south of Europe.
What is Africa?
This body of water separates Europe from Africa.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
These fascinating creatures are standouts among cephalopods, and among all invertebrates, for their large brains. They can navigate mazes, solve problems, remember, predict, use tools and take apart just about anything from a crab to a lock.
What are octopuses?
She notoriously released all evils into the world, trapping only hope in her jar.
Who is Pandora?
These receive the actions of the verb.
What are objects?
This country, part of the U.K., is north of England.
What is Scotland?
This is the most northern of the Great Lakes.
What is Lake Superior?
These are unique egg-laying mammals found in Australia and New Guinea that use their, long, sticky tongues to eat insects and worms. Covered in protective spines, they are toothless and carry their young, called "puggles," in a pouch.
What are echidnas, or anteaters?
This hero's only weakness was his heel.
Who was Achilles?
Applying the MLA format, novel titles should always be typed using these.
What are italics?
This large island, also the name of a Disney film, is immediately to the east of the African country of Mozambique.
What is Madagascar?
This human-made stretch of water separates the continents of North and South America.
What is the Panama Canal?