Words and their Meanings
To select by voting.
What is elect?
The hospital keeps control of the number of visitors each patient can have at one time.
What is limits?
Which of the following would be an amazing event?
a) watch a sailboat race
b) falling overboard while sailing
c) losing an oar while rowing
d) crossing the ocean in a rowboat
What is d) crossing the ocean in a rowboat?
What job did Naismith tackle in 1891?
Finding an indoor sport for the winter.
Basketball today is a big business, with star players earning millions of dollars. When it began, it was no more than an indor form of ______________ for college students.
What is recreations?
Some space between two things.
What is interval?
You must be between twelve and eighteen years old to play tennis in this group of sports teams that play against each other.
What is a league?
a) while taking a shower
b) while hiking in the mountains
c) while playing basketball
d) while watching TV
what is c) while playing basketball?
Describe the area Naismith set up for basketball.
There was a court with a goal at each end.
Playing the game required very little. All it took to turn the college gym into a basketball __________ was a raised basket at each end and a ball.
What is court?
an important event.
what is milestone?
The area around the north pole is actually a frozen sea.
What is arctic?
Which of the following could you see in the Arctic?
a) polar bears
b) pineapple trees
c) tigers
d) rattlesnakes
what is a) polar bears?
What limit was placed on the length of the game?
The game lasted thirty minutes.
The first game had two periods of play, each lasting fifteen minutes. After a short ____________, the players changed sides, and the second half began.
What is interval?
the tools used for a certain sport
what is tackle?
The stone marker that said how far it was to the next town was hard to read because it was old and beginning to crumble.
What is milestone?
a) to eat at a restaurant
b) to play a sport
c) to sleep comfortably
d) to read a book
What is b) to play a sport?
Why is December 21, 1891, a milestone in the history of sports?
The world's first basketball game was played on that date.
Today, the action in professional basketbal games lasts for a total of forty-eight minutes. High school basketball games are ____________ to thirty-two minutes
a) something done for money
b) something done to help others
c) something done for fun
d) something that takes skill
what is recreation?
This Saturday, I want you to make the effort to do the leaves in the backyard.
What is tackle?
Which of the following might people do for recreation?
a) clean their bedroom
b) go to the beach
c) go to school
d) eat lunch
What is b) go to the beach?
Against which other teams would a wheelchair basketball team play?
They would play against teams in a league for wheelchair players.
Naismith tried to keep the rules of the new game simple. Players were not allowed to ____________ each other, and there was to be no running with the ball.
What is tackle?