🧠Word Play
This word means a word that is the same forward and backward.
What is a palindrome?
This is molten rock beneath Earth’s surface.
What is magma?
This fruit is known for having its seeds on the outside.
What is a strawberry?
This inventor is credited with creating the light bulb.
Who is Thomas Edison?
This type of vehicle runs on rails.
What is a train?
This punctuation mark is used to show possession.
What is an apostrophe?
This scale measures the strength of earthquakes.
What is the Richter scale?
This Italian dish consists of layers of pasta, cheese, and sauce.
What is lasagna?
This device was invented by Alexander Graham Bell.
What is the telephone?
This is the busiest airport in the United States (by passenger traffic).
What is Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport?
This term means a word that has the opposite meaning of another.
What is an antonym?
This biome is characterized by very low rainfall and extreme temperatures.
What is a desert?
This grain is the main ingredient in risotto.
What is rice?
This discovery by Alexander Fleming led to modern antibiotics.
What is penicillin?
This system of roads allows high-speed travel across the U.S.
What is the interstate highway system?
This literary device gives human traits to non-human things.
What is personification?
This type of rock forms from cooled lava or magma.
What is igneous rock?
This sauce is traditionally made from basil, garlic, pine nuts, and olive oil.
What is pesto?
This scientist proposed the three laws of motion.
Who is Isaac Newton?
This company produces the Model S electric car.
What is Tesla?
This word means a phrase whose meaning isn’t literal, like “break the ice.”
What is an idiom?
This boundary occurs where two tectonic plates move away from each other.
What is a divergent boundary?
This cooking method involves submerging food in hot oil.
What is deep frying?
This invention by Johannes Gutenberg revolutionized printing.
What is the printing press?
This canal connects the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans through Central America.
What is the Panama Canal?