Greek Architecture
The art or practice of constructing and designing buildings.
What is architecture?
The study of living things.
What is biology?
The shape of a Greek theater.
What is a bowl shape?
These games were played every four years.
What are the Olympics?
List the three types of Greek columns.
What are Doric, Iconic, and Corinthian columns?
Refers to the study of plant and animal structures.
What is anatomy?
Only men could be actors in a play.(true or false)
True.
List two games/sport festivals in ancient Greece.
What are the Olympics and Panathenaic Games?
The place where two roof line met, creating a triangular shape.
What is a pediment.
__________, was a fascinated by living things, and invented the grouping of living things.
Who was Aristotle?
The creator of the first geometry textbook.
Who is Euclid?
The location of the Olympics.
What is Mount Olympia.
Who is no one.(trick question!)
A poisonous plant juice that killed Socrates.
What is hemlock?
Pythagoras was fascinated with what what math subject?
What is geometry?
The goddess Althea was honored at the Panathenaic games.(true or false.)
False.
Name three places where Greek columns can be found in Washington D.C.(hint, they are government buildings.)
What is the Supreme Court, the White House, and the Capitol building?
The influence that led Greek scientists to study plants and animals.
What is curiosity?
The scientist that believed that numbers were the key to understanding nature?
Who is Pythagoras?
The lighting of the Olympic torch is a custom originated from _____________.(fill in the blank)
What is the time in ancient Greece where the first athletes lit a fire on the altar of Zeus.