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This is the volume of a box that holds exactly 24 unit cubes with no gaps or overlaps.
What is 24 cubic units?
In the division problem 1,200 ÷ 40, this is the name of the number 40.
Answer: What is the divisor?
The Maya and Aztec civilizations developed in this region.
Answer: What is Mesoamerica?
If something has a distinct smell, it is different in this noticeable way.
Answer: What is distinct?
Complete this sentence with a connecting word: 'The Inca empire had four quarters, ___ some were larger than others.'
Answer: What is but?
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 × h?
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?
This civilization was located in South America and had its capital at Cuzco.
Answer: What is the Inca civilization?
This word means the woolly coat of a sheep.
Answer: What is fleece?
This word means handwriting that is difficult or impossible to read: illegible, illogical, or illegal.
Answer: What is illegible?
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 × 4 × 3)
A theater has 432 seats divided equally into 12 rows. How many seats are in each row?
Answer: What is 36 seats?
This civilization developed a writing system that included glyphs and codices.
Answer: What is the Maya civilization?
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?
Mayan cities were places where people could ___ with one another to exchange goods and ideas: interact, intersect, or intercede.
Answer: What is interact?
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 × 6)
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.)
The Aztec adapted to their environment by building these rectangular gardens on a lake.
Answer: What are chinampas?
A peaked spire has this kind of shape.
Answer: What is pointed?
Beautiful pictures of a newly built temple seemed to ___ many visitors: extract, distract, or attract.
Answer: What is attract?
A sandbox has two rectangular sections. One is 3 ft × 4 ft × 2 ft, and the other is 5 ft × 4 ft × 2 ft. This is the total volume.
Answer: What is 64 cubic feet? (24 + 40)
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?
Name the Spanish explorers associated with the declines of the Aztec and Inca empires, respectively.
Answer: Who are Hernán Cortés and Francisco Pizarro?
Two people have a quarrel when they have this.
Answer: What is an argument or disagreement?
In the word illegal, this prefix means 'not' or 'the opposite of.'
Answer: What is il-? (A form of the prefix in-.)