Geometry
An angle that measures exactly 90 degrees is called this.
What is a right angle?
A word that has the opposite meaning of another word.
What is an antonym?
The longest river in Africa, flowing through multiple countries including Egypt and Sudan.
What is the Nile River?
The type of energy that allows us to see things.
What is light?
This is the measurement of the average kinetic energy of particles in a substance.
What is temperature?
A triangle with all three sides equal is called this.
What is an equilateral triangle?
This part of speech describes an action or state of being.
What is a verb?
Afrikaans is widely spoken in countries along this region of Africa.
What is South Africa?
When light bounces off a surface, this is happening.
What is reflection?
This occurs when a liquid changes into a gas because heat is added.
What is evaporation or boiling?
The area of a rectangle is found by multiplying these two measurements.
What are length and width?
A figure of speech that compares two unlike things using “like” or “as.”
What is a simile?
This West African musical instrument has a large goblet shape and is played with the hands.
What is the djembe drum?
This occurs when light bends as it passes from one medium to another, like air to water.
What is refraction?
This is the temperature at which water changes from a liquid to a gas at sea level.
What is 100°C (or 212°F)?
The distance around a circle is called this.
What is the circumference?
The first paragraph of an essay that introduces the topic and thesis statement.
What is the introduction?
This West African kingdom was extremely wealthy due to gold and salt trade, and its most famous ruler was Mansa Musa.
What is the Mali Empire?
A curved mirror that bulges outward is called this.
What is a convex mirror?
This happens to the motion of water molecules as heat is added.
What is they move faster/more?
You find the volume of this 3D shape by cubing the length of one of its sides.
What is a cube?
The main idea of a story is sometimes called this.
What is the theme?
This East African trading kingdom was located along the coast and traded with Arabia and India, becoming rich from ivory and gold.
What is Axum / the Kingdom of Aksum?
This natural phenomenon splits sunlight into a spectrum of colors in the sky.
What is a rainbow?
When ice absorbs heat, it begins this phase change.
What is melting?