Greek/Latin Bases in Math
Oct- as in octopus means this number.
What is eight?
Select the 2 common nouns:
In New Zealand, July is the coldest month of the year.
What are month and year?
Makenzi has 4 jigsaw puzzles and each one has 65 pieces. How many pieces does Makenzi have?
What is 260 puzzles pieces?
The name for an ancient Egyptian ruler.
What is a pharaoh?
Oceanic crust will always move under continental crust at a _____ zone.
What is subduction?
Tri- as in triangle means this number.
What is three?
Select the two common nouns:
Mr. Kabara has an extra ticket for our trip to the Bronx Zoo.
What are ticket and trip?
Rocco buys 9 dozen eggs. How many eggs is this?
What is 108 eggs?
True or False: Enslaved people in ancient Egypt were able to earn their freedom.
What is False?
These currents in the mantel are what cause plates to move on the crust.
What are convection currents?
Cent- as in century means this number.
What is 100?
Select the two common nouns:
On Monday, Sophia is going to the shelter to adopt a cat.
What are shelter and cat?
What is $2,760?
This pharaoh was relatively unimportant during his lifetime, but his well-preserved tomb has made him incredibly famous in death.
Who is King Tut?
The super continent that incorporated all of the land masses on Earth more than 200 million years ago.
What is Pangea?
Kilo- as in kilometer means this number.
What is 1,000?
Select the one common noun:
Martin Luther King, Jr. is a holiday that falls on the third Monday of January.
What is holiday?
Mrs. Raymond paid $105 for flower boxes. Each flower box cost $7. How many flower boxes did she buy?
What is 15?
This river's annual flooding created fertile land throughout Egypt that was ideal fro growing crops.
What is the Nile River?
What is the mantle?
Dec- as in decade means this number.
What is 10?
Select the three proper nouns:
Asia shares its western borders with Africa and Europe.
What are Asia, Africa, and Europe?
Mr. Iacobucci purchased some trees to plant in his backyard. He bought three oak trees for $23 each and an elm tree for $42. What was the total cost of the trees?
What is $111?
This desert - the largest in the world - covers much of Egypt.
What is the Sahara?
This scientist was ridiculed for his theory of continental drift - even though he was right!
Who is Alfred Wegener?