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Vocabulary
Physics & Water
Boat Terminology
Cork Boat
Batman
100
An official ban on trade or other commercial activity with a particular country
What is an embargo?
100
The ability or tendency to float in water or other fluid
What is buoyancy?
100
The front end of a boat
What is the bow?
100
The author, John Pollack, often argued with this friend.
Who is Garth?
100
Batman's sidekick (also, the state bird of Wisconsin)
Who is Robin?
200
A person who is unusually fearful or contemptuous of that which is foreign, especially of strangers or foreign peoples
What is a xenophobe?
200
It is easier to swim in ______ water, but it is harder to float.
What is warm? (What is salt?)
200
The back end of a boat
What is the stern?
200
John's sister who died when she drown in a river's rushing waters
Who is Sara?
200
Batman's arch nemesis
Who is the Joker?
300
A type of mammal whose young are born incompletely developed and are typically carried and suckled in a pouch on the mother's belly
What is a marsupial?
300
The weight or volume pushed aside or moved by a floating or submerged body in a fluid
What is displacement?
300
The left side of a boat looking forward
What is port?
300
John used to be a speechwriter for this President.
Who is Bill Clinton? Who is Clinton?
300
This villain's logo is the question mark.
Who is the Riddler?
400
To remove those parts of a text considered offensive, vulgar, or otherwise unseemly
What is bowdlerize?
400
[A.] This changes in water as it warms or cools, or... [B.] Mathematically, defined as mass divided by volume.
What is density?
400
The right side of a boat when looking forward
What is starboard?
400
The book begins in this Michigan city, the home of the University of Michigan Wolverines.
What is Ann Arbor?
400
Gotham City is a fictional city based on this U.S. city. (If you can make it there, you can make it anywhere.)
What is New York City?
500
An oceanic bird with a nine-foot wingspan Also, a constant burden
What is an albatross?
500
Refers to the vertical distance from the water to the lowest part of the boat (or, how much of the boat is underwater)
What is draft?
500
The main body of a ship or other vessel, including the bottom, sides, and deck (but not the masts, superstructure, rigging, or engines)
What is the hull?
500
John and his crew traveled along this body of water before reaching the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the Douro River?
500
Bruce Wayne's butler
Who is Alfred Pennyworth? Who is Alfred? Who is Pennyworth?