GEOLOGY/ARCHAEOLOGY
MATH
ENGLISH
LANGUAGES
PSYCHOLOGY
400
THIS MASSIVE CANYON, CARVED BY THE COLORADO RIVER OVER MILLIONS OF YEARS, IS ONE OF THE MOST ICONIC GEOLOGICAL FEATURES IN THE AMERICAN SOUTHWEST
WHAT IS THE GRAND CANYON?
400
THIS IS THE RESULT OF 8 MULTIPLIED BY 7
WHAT IS 56?
400
THIS PART OF SPEECH DESCRIBES AN ACTION, LIKE “RUN,” “THINK,” OR “DREAM”
WHAT IS A VERB?
400
SPANISH TRANSLATION OF 'LIBRARY'
WHAT IS BIBLIOTECA?
400
THINK BACK TO SPRING 2025 WORKSHOP:
THIS IS THE TERM FOR THE SUPPORTIVE STRATEGY OF PROVIDING HELP ONLY AS NEEDED, THEN GRADUALLY REDUCING IT AS THE STUDENT GAINS CONFIDENCE.
WHAT IS SCAFFOLDING?
800
THIS SITE IN NORTHWESTERN NEW MEXICO WAS A MAJOR CENTER OF ANCESTRAL PUEBLOAN CIVILIZATION, FEATURING MASSIVE STONE STRUCTURES AND PRECISE ASTRONOMICAL ALIGNMENTS
WHAT IS CHACO CANYON?
800
A RIGHT TRIANGLE WITH SIDE LENGTHS OF 3, 4, AND 5 SATISFIES THIS FAMOUS MATHEMATICAL THEOREM
WHAT IS THE PYTHAGOREAN THEOREM?
800
THIS PUNCTUATION MARK IS USED TO INDICATE POSSESSION OR TO FORM CONTRACTIONS
WHAT IS AN APOSTROPHE?
800
THIS ROMANCE LANGUAGE IS THE OFFICIAL LANGUAGE OF BRAZIL
WHAT IS PORTUGUESE?
800
THIS SWISS PSYCHIATRIST FOUNDED ANALYTICAL PSYCHOLOGY AND INTRODUCED CONCEPTS LIKE THE COLLECTIVE UNCONSCIOUS AND ARCHETYPES
WHO IS CARL JUNG?
1200
THIS FOSSIL-RICH FORMATION, LOCATED PRIMARILY IN ARIZONA AND DATING TO THE TRIASSIC PERIOD, IS KNOWN FOR ITS VIVIDLY COLORED ROCK LAYERS AND PRESERVED PREHISTORIC TREES
WHAT IS THE PETRIFIED FOREST?
1200
THIS IS THE TERM FOR A NUMBER THAT CAN ONLY BE DIVIDED EVENLY BY 1 AND ITSELF
WHAT IS A PRIME NUMBER?
1200
THIS IS THE LITERARY TERM FOR GIVING HUMAN CHARACTERISTICS TO NONHUMAN THINGS, LIKE “THE WIND WHISPERED THROUGH THE TREES.”
WHAT IS PERSONIFICATION?
1200
THIS WORD MEANS RED IN FRENCH, AND IN ENGLISH ALSO REFERS TO A MAKEUP PRODUCT THAT APPLIES A TINT OF COLOR TO THE FACE
WHAT IS ROUGE?
1200
THIS IS THE RANGE OF TASKS A LEARNER CAN'T QUITE DO INDEPENDENTLY BUT CAN ACCOMPLISH WITH THE HELP OF A MORE KNOWLEDGEABLE PERSON.
HINT: THINK BACK TO OUR SPRING 2025 WORKSHOP AND VYGOSTKY'S THEORY, WHAT DOES 'ZDP' STAND FOR?
WHAT IS THE ZONE OF PROXIMAL DEVELOPMENT?
1600
THE NAME FOR THESE COMES FROM GREEK ROOTS MEANING "STONE" AND "CARVING," AND EXAMPLES CAN BE FOUND ON ROCK SURFACES IN ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES THROUGHOUT THE WORLD (INCLUDING HERE IN NM)
WHAT ARE PETROGLYPHS?
1600
IF THE MEAN OF FIVE NUMBERS IS 20, AND FOUR OF THE NUMBERS ARE 15, 25, 30, AND 10, THIS IS THE FIFTH NUMBER
WHAT IS 20?
(Because total must be 100. 15+25+30+10 = 80, so 100 – 80 = 20.)
1600
THIS TYPE OF SENTENCE STRUCTURE CONTAINS ONE INDEPENDENT CLAUSE AND AT LEAST ONE DEPENDENT CLAUSE
WHAT IS A COMPLEX SENTENCE?
1600
ORIGINATING IN THE ASHKENAZI JEWISH COMMUNITIES OF CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE, THIS LANGUAGE BLENDS GERMANIC, HEBREW, SLAVIC, AND ROMANCE ELEMENTS AND WAS ONCE THE VERNACULAR FOR MILLIONS OF JEWISH PEOPLE
WHAT IS YIDDISH?
1600
IN PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY, OUT OF THREE PARTS OF THE HUMAN PSYCHE, THIS PART IS CONCERNED WITH THE PRIMAL, INSTINCTUAL DRIVE FOR PLEASURE AND IMMEDIATE GRATIFICATION
WHAT IS THE ID?
THE OTHER TWO ARE THE EGO, WHICH MITIGATES AND RATIONALIZES THE DESIRES OF THE ID AND THE EXTERNAL WORLD, AND THE SUPEREGO, WHICH ACTS AS A MORAL COMPASS AND OFTEN SERVES AS A MEANS TO JUDGE OURSELF AND OTHERS
2000
IN 1970, PRESIDENT NIXON RETURNED BLUE LAKE TO THIS PUEBLO COMMUNITY, RECOGNIZING THEIR SACRED CONNECTION TO THE LAND AND MARKING A MAJOR VICTORY IN NATIVE AMERICAN SELF-DETERMINATION
WHAT IS TAOS PUEBLO?
2000
THIS TYPE OF FUNCTION HAS THE GENERAL FORM f(x) = ax² + bx + c AND GRAPHS AS A PARABOLA
WHAT IS A QUADRATIC FUNCTION?
2000
THIS IS THE GRAMMATICAL TERM FOR A VERB FORM THAT FUNCTIONS AS A NOUN, ENDING IN “-ING,” AS IN “SWIMMING IS FUN.”
WHAT IS A GERUND?
2000
THIS PHILOSOPHER AND LINGUIST DEVELOPED THE THEORY OF UNIVERSAL GRAMMAR, ARGUING THAT THE ABILITY TO LEARN LANGUAGE IS INNATE TO HUMANS
WHO IS NOAM CHOMSKY?
2000
WHEN SOMEONE DOES SOMETHING THAT CLASHES WITH THEIR SUPPOSED MORALS AND VALUES, THEY MAY ENGAGE IN THIS MENTAL PROCESS IN ORDER TO RATIONALIZE THEIR BEHAVIOR
WHAT IS COGNITIVE DISSONANCE?