Volcanos
The eruption of this volcano in AD 79 destroyed the Roman city of Pompeii
What is Mount Vesuvius?
Translating to 'fresh' this is a painting done rapidly in watercolour on wet plaster. These were commonly used to decorate the interior walls in ancient Rome.
What is a fresco?
You need these two values to calculate an objects density
What are volume and weight/ mass?
This number which is the ratio of the circumference of any circle to the diameter of that circle was discovered by Archimedes
What is pi?
What are chariot races?
This type of plate boundary is where tectonic plates move away from one another, allowing magma to rise up from the mantle and form mid ocean ridges or a rift valley
What is a divergent plate boundary
There was no Tide or other Gain laundry detergent in ancient times, instead, the Romans used this as a detergent.
What is urine?
This method can be used to determine the volume of an irregular object
What is displacement?
Archimedes was born in this Italian city which was at the time a Greek city state.
What is Syracuse?
Rome battled Carthage in these three wars, ultimately becoming the dominant power in the Mediterranean.
What are the punic wars?
A dense, fast-moving flow of solidified lava pieces, volcanic ash, and hot gases that occurs as part of certain volcanic eruptions.
What is pyroclastic flow?
A picture or pattern produced by arranging together small pieces of stone, tile, or glass. Often ued to decorate the floors in ancient Rome.
What is a mosaic?
This gas commonly found at birthday parties and carnivals is less dense than air.
What is helium?
There is evidence that this device had been used in Ancient Egypt to move water in an upward direction before Archimedes described it around 234 BC.
What is an Archimedes screw?
This gladiator combatant would carry a trident and a weighted net. Unarmored he was vulnerable but light and agile.
What is a retiarus?
A fissure on the seabed from which geothermally heated water discharges, commonly found near volcanically active places
What is a hydrothermal vent?
A Roman thermae would usually have a fridgidarium and a caldarium as well as this medium-warm temperature bath.
What is a tepidarium?
This rock floats on water because it is less dense than air
What is pumice?
Leonardo da Vinci correctly worked out the blood flow through this complex body organ.
What is the heart?
This Roman Emperor was the first Christian and his decision to cease the persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire was a turning point for early Christianity.
Who is Constantine?
Meaning ‘slow’ ‘quake’ this is the gradual uplift or descent of part of the Earth's surface caused by the filling or emptying of an underground magma chamber or hydrothermal activity.
What is Bradyseism?
An upper class Roman domus would have a concave roof with an opening directly over top of this pool for collecting water.
What is an Impluvium?
This formula allows you to calculate the density of an object
What is mass or weight divided by volume?
DaVinci was not only a mathematician, and scientist but also an artist known for his paintings of the Mona Lisa and the Last Supper. This iconic work of his is a study of the proportions of the human body, linking art and science in a single work.
What is the Vitruvian Man?
At the head of Roman family life was the oldest living male, He looked after the family's business affairs and property and had absolute rule over his household and children. The term for this person translates to "father of the family."
What is / who is paterfamilias?