Asian Geography
Name the highest mountain in Japan.
Mt. Fuji
What is the term for when an author or poet compares two things using like or as?
simile
Name a four-sided shape.
Quadrilateral
What is the name of the first statement or question in an essay that draws the reader in?
hook
Right angles are exactly how many degrees?
90
The Euphrates is a ____________ in western Asia.
river
What is the term for when an author plants a clue in a story that points to a future event?
foreshadowing
If you add up all of the angles of a triangle, how many degrees will you have?
180
What is the name of the main idea statement of an essay?
Thesis or Claim
The distance across a circle is called the _______________________.
diameter
Name the tiny country between China and India that is known as the Land of the Thunder Dragon.
Bhutan
What is the term for when an author or poet makes a direct comparison between two things or ideas?
metaphor
What do you call two lines that never intersect?
Parallel
What is the name of the main idea sentence that begins a paragraph?
topic or introductory sentence
The distance from the center of the circle to the edge is called the ____________________.
radius
The world’s highest mountain peak is in the Himalayas and is called ______________.
Mt. Everest
What is the term for when an author gives objects human-like qualities?
personification
In a trapezoid, you have one set of _____________ lines.
Parallel
What is the name of the word(s) that show the reader a new point is coming up?
transitions
To find the circumference of a circle, multiply 3.14 (pi) times the ____________________.
Diameter
Which Chinese city is at the mouth of the Yangtze River?
Shanghai
What is the name of the NEXT book in a series?
sequel
The distance around a circle is called the _____________________.
Circumference
bibliography or works cited
Name the Greek mathematician who is considered to be the Father of Geometry.
Euclid