The Continents
Prefixes/roots
Reading and words
In The News
100

People in 5th century Italy played tennis with their bare hands.  Italy is located on which continent that includes the Alps.

What is Europe?

100

This prefix means 100.

What is cent?

100

This literary term expresses when the opposite of what we expect to happen does.

What is irony?

100

While President Trump was impeached by the House of Representatives he was not impeached by the...

What is the Senate.

200

The arches of a McDonald's in Sedona, Arizona are turquoise instead of yellow.  Arizona is located on which continent that includes the Sonoran Desert.

What is North America?

200

This prefix means 2.

What is bi?

200

This word explains what happens to a body when placed into the ground after death.

What is interred?

200

This team won the Super Bowl last Sunday.

Who are the Kansas City Chiefs?

300
Doctors in ancient Peru drilled holes in patients' skulls to relieve their headaches.  Peru is located on this continent.

What is South America?

300

This prefix means good or well.

What is bene?

300

Dickie's father in the story was so frustrated that this was the manner in which he handled the papers. One feels this way when worried, too.

What is vexed or in vexation?

300

This may be a problem for the July Olympics in Japan.

What is the coronavirus?

400

Crocodiles sometimes climb trees.  The Nile crocodile lives in Sudan and Ethiopia on which continent.

What is Africa?

400

This prefix "dict" means this.

What is to say?

400

This word describes information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view.

What is propaganda?

400

This word is the opposite of impeachment or what the Senate voted on regarding the President.

What is aquittal?

500

An albatross can glide hundreds of miles without flapping its wings.  These birds can be found off the coast of which continent that includes the Ross and Filchner Ice Shelves.

What is Antarctica?

500

You have not been explicitly taught this, but considering what you know about language, English/French/Spanis/Italian, this is the meaning of "viv" or "vita."

What is life or to live?

500

This strategy helps us understand text when we have to infer what is not being directly stated.

What is reading between the lines?

500

Iowa already held its first presidential primary and the next one is February 11 and will take place in this state.

What is New Hampshire?