Vocabulary
Geography
Explorers
Word Study
100
Name 2 synonyms for indigenous 

What is native, original, local,

100

Which continent was Robert Scott's South Pole expedition located on?

What is Antarctica?

100

What is the name of the explorer who has the same name as a popular childhood game?

Who is Marco Polo?

100

How many morphemes does the following word have?

Uneducated

What is three?

200

Contempt is to respect as fortune is to....

What is poverty, destitute, poor, deprivation?

200

What two countries were racing to the South Pole? Who won?

What is Norway and Britain? Norway won

200

What does El Dorado stand for?

What is the Golden One?

200

How many morphemes does the following word have?

Overexaggerated 

What is three?

300

Which four vocabulary words fit in the following sentences?

Lindsey had little _________________ to do well in gymnastics and took the longest _________________ possible to get to the gym. Her meet ended in ___________________ because Lindsey did not follow the _____________ her coach had gone over. 

What is ambition, route, catastrophe, and tactics?

300
Mexico used to be territory of what country?

What is Spain?

300

What was the name of the tribe Hernan Cortes conquered?

What are the Aztecs?

300

What is a morpheme?

What is the smallest unit of a word that holds meaning ?

400

Which four vocabulary words fit in the following sentences? 

Frank loves to eat _______________ cuisine from Germany. Frank's family are not originally from Germany, so they are not ______________ to the area. Frank's great grandparents moved from Germany after the German Military decided to take over Polish ______________ during WWII. Frank's grandma became a _______________ baker after moving to America.

What is traditional, indigenous, territory, legendary?

400

How did the Amazon River get its name?

What is the group of mythical female warriors from Ancient Greece called Amazons?

400

Name two positives and two negatives of exploration 

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400

Name 8 words with the prefix over

What is 

Overload, Overslept, Overproduction, Overeat, Overheat, Overconfident, Overanxious, Overproduction, etc.

500

Vocabulary word from Jess and Layla that is a synonym for last minute

What is an afterthought?

500

What was the name of the road Marco Polo followed to reach China?

What is the Silk Road?

500

What was the name of the indigenous group of Australians who were kind to Burke and Wills and the rest of the explorers?

What are the Yandruwandha people?
500

Name 5 words with three morphemes each

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