Round in shape, this unusual house is found in Mongolia.
What is a yurt?
100
This state is the largest and coldest in the US.
What is Alaska?
100
You do this by leaving through a door. It is the opposite of entering.
What is "to go outside"? or What is "going outside"?
100
A big heavy square of something, for example wood or ice.
What is a block?
100
The opposite of inside. When you are not in a home or building, you are here.
What is "outside"?
200
You can fish or live on this houseboat from Asia.
What is a sampan?
200
This large country is north of the USA. People speak English here. They also speak French, especially in Quebec province. This country was part of the British Empire.
What is Canada?
200
Preparing meals is also called __________. You do this in kitchens or over fires before you eat breakfast, lunch or dinner. Igloos and modern homes both have areas for this activity.
What is cooking?
200
This material comes from trees and is made into boards.
What is wood?
200
Two of these make up one whole thing. Cutting something in two parts makes two of these.
What are "halves"? / What is a "half"?
300
Inuit people made this house out of snow blocks. It protected them from the extreme cold.
What is an igloo?
300
This large part of Russia is very cold in winter. It has many forests. Tigers still live in the forests here.
What is Siberia?
300
We do this when we are tired. Sometimes we do it in class, but we shouldn't!
What is sleeping?
300
This material is used to make tents and clothing.
What is cloth?
300
Modern houses have many of these different spaces, for example, for cooking, bathing, and sleeping. Walls separate them from each other.
What are "rooms"? / What is a "room"?
400
A sampan is one of these. You can live in these and travel in them on rivers and lakes.
What is a "houseboat"?
400
This country's population is the largest in the world. Its famous Great Wall protects it. Many CESL students come from this country.
What is China?
400
Catching animals that swim with fins to eat them is ________. You do this with nets or with poles and lines. People do this off sampans. They do it in lakes and rivers here in Illinois, too.
What is fishing?
400
This unusual building material falls from the sky in winter. It is cut into blocks for the igloo.
What is snow?
400
This is the shape of an apple or orange, but not a banana. Things that are this shape are often curvy and smooth.
What is a round?
500
This country is south of Russia and north of China. The famous warrior-rulers Genghis Khan and Kublai Khan are from this country. Its capital is Ulan Bator (Ulaanbaatar).
What is Mongolia?
500
To make a house is to _________ it. To make bridges, skyscrapers, and igloos, you ________ them, too!
What is "build"?
500
This shape is half of a 3-D circle. A famous sports arena in Houston is the Astro _______.