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Category 5: Language Lab ✍️
100

This is the volume of a box that holds exactly 24 unit cubes with no gaps or overlaps.


What is 24 cubic units?

100

In the division problem 1,200 Γ· 40, this is the name of the number 40.



Answer: What is the divisor?



100

The Maya and Aztec civilizations developed in this region.



Answer: What is Mesoamerica?



100

If something has a distinct smell, it is different in this noticeable way.



Answer: What is distinct?



100

Complete this sentence with a connecting word: 'The Inca empire had four quarters, ___ some were larger than others.'


Answer: What is but?

200

This formula uses the area of the base (B) and the height (h) to find the volume of a rectangular prism.



Answer: What is V = B Γ— h?



200

152 students sign up for soccer. Each team must have exactly 10 players. How many complete teams can be formed?



Answer: What is 15 teams, with 2 students left over?



200

This civilization was located in South America and had its capital at Cuzco.


Answer: What is the Inca civilization?

200

This word means the woolly coat of a sheep.


Answer: What is fleece?

200

This word means handwriting that is difficult or impossible to read: illegible, illogical, or illegal.



Answer: What is illegible?



300

A rectangular jewelry box is 8 inches long, 4 inches wide, and 3 inches tall. This is its volume.



Answer: What is 96 cubic inches? (8 Γ— 4 Γ— 3)



300

A theater has 432 seats divided equally into 12 rows. How many seats are in each row?



Answer: What is 36 seats?



300

This civilization developed a writing system that included glyphs and codices.


Answer: What is the Maya civilization?

300

When you nurture a plant, you care for it and help it grow. What does nurture mean?



Answer: What is to care for and encourage growth?



300

Mayan cities were places where people could ___ with one another to exchange goods and ideas: interact, intersect, or intercede.



Answer: What is interact?



400

A storage bin has a base area of 40 square feet and a height of 6 feet. This is its volume.



Answer: What is 240 cubic feet? (40 Γ— 6)



400

A school must transport 145 students in vans that hold 12 students each. What is the minimum number of vans needed?



Answer: What are 13 vans? (12 vans hold 144; one more is needed.)



400

The Aztec adapted to their environment by building these rectangular gardens on a lake.


Answer: What are chinampas?

400

A peaked spire has this kind of shape.



Answer: What is pointed?



400

Beautiful pictures of a newly built temple seemed to ___ many visitors: extract, distract, or attract.



Answer: What is attract?



500

A sandbox has two rectangular sections. One is 3 ft Γ— 4 ft Γ— 2 ft, and the other is 5 ft Γ— 4 ft Γ— 2 ft. This is the total volume.


Answer: What is 64 cubic feet? (24 + 40)

500

A factory packages 4,140 markers into boxes holding 18 markers each. How many completely filled boxes can it make?



Answer: What are 230 boxes?



500

Name the Spanish explorers associated with the declines of the Aztec and Inca empires, respectively.


Answer: Who are HernΓ‘n CortΓ©s and Francisco Pizarro?

500

Two people have a quarrel when they have this.



Answer: What is an argument or disagreement?



500

In the word illegal, this prefix means 'not' or 'the opposite of.'



Answer: What is il-? (A form of the prefix in-.)



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