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100

This is the volume of a box that holds exactly 24 unit cubes with no gaps or overlaps.


What is 24 cubic units?

100

In the division problem 1,200 ÷ 40, this is the name of the number 40.



Answer: What is the divisor?



100

The Maya and Aztec civilizations developed in this region.



Answer: What is Mesoamerica?



100

If something has a distinct smell, it is different in this noticeable way.



Answer: What is distinct?



100

Complete this sentence with a connecting word: 'The Inca empire had four quarters, ___ some were larger than others.'


Answer: What is but?

200

This formula uses the area of the base (B) and the height (h) to find the volume of a rectangular prism.



Answer: What is V = B × h?



200

152 students sign up for soccer. Each team must have exactly 10 players. How many complete teams can be formed?



Answer: What is 15 teams, with 2 students left over?



200

This civilization was located in South America and had its capital at Cuzco.


Answer: What is the Inca civilization?

200

This word means the woolly coat of a sheep.


Answer: What is fleece?

200

This word means handwriting that is difficult or impossible to read: illegible, illogical, or illegal.



Answer: What is illegible?



300

A rectangular jewelry box is 8 inches long, 4 inches wide, and 3 inches tall. This is its volume.



Answer: What is 96 cubic inches? (8 × 4 × 3)



300

A theater has 432 seats divided equally into 12 rows. How many seats are in each row?



Answer: What is 36 seats?



300

This civilization developed a writing system that included glyphs and codices.


Answer: What is the Maya civilization?

300

When you nurture a plant, you care for it and help it grow. What does nurture mean?



Answer: What is to care for and encourage growth?



300

Mayan cities were places where people could ___ with one another to exchange goods and ideas: interact, intersect, or intercede.



Answer: What is interact?



400

A storage bin has a base area of 40 square feet and a height of 6 feet. This is its volume.



Answer: What is 240 cubic feet? (40 × 6)



400

A school must transport 145 students in vans that hold 12 students each. What is the minimum number of vans needed?



Answer: What are 13 vans? (12 vans hold 144; one more is needed.)



400

The Aztec adapted to their environment by building these rectangular gardens on a lake.


Answer: What are chinampas?

400

A peaked spire has this kind of shape.



Answer: What is pointed?



400

Beautiful pictures of a newly built temple seemed to ___ many visitors: extract, distract, or attract.



Answer: What is attract?



500

A sandbox has two rectangular sections. One is 3 ft × 4 ft × 2 ft, and the other is 5 ft × 4 ft × 2 ft. This is the total volume.


Answer: What is 64 cubic feet? (24 + 40)

500

A factory packages 4,140 markers into boxes holding 18 markers each. How many completely filled boxes can it make?



Answer: What are 230 boxes?



500

Name the Spanish explorers associated with the declines of the Aztec and Inca empires, respectively.


Answer: Who are Hernán Cortés and Francisco Pizarro?

500

Two people have a quarrel when they have this.



Answer: What is an argument or disagreement?



500

In the word illegal, this prefix means 'not' or 'the opposite of.'



Answer: What is il-? (A form of the prefix in-.)