Geometry
An angle that measures exactly 90 degrees is called this.
What is a right angle?
A word that has the opposite meaning of another word.
What is an antonym?
A poem with 14 lines and a specific rhyme scheme is called this.
What is a sonnet?
The longest river in Africa, flowing through multiple countries including Egypt and Sudan.
What is the Nile River?
This is the measurement of the average kinetic energy of particles in a substance.
What is temperature?
A triangle with all three sides equal is called this.
What is an equilateral triangle?
This part of speech describes an action or state of being.
What is a verb?
This literary device gives human qualities to nonhuman things, like saying “the wind whispered.”
What is personification?
Afrikaans is widely spoken in countries along this region of Africa.
What is South Africa?
This occurs when a liquid changes into a gas because heat is added.
What is evaporation or boiling?
The area of a rectangle is found by multiplying these two measurements.
What are length and width?
A figure of speech that compares two unlike things using “like” or “as.”
What is a simile?
This kind of poem usually has 5–7–5 syllables and comes from Japan.
What is a haiku?
This West African musical instrument has a large goblet shape and is played with the hands.
What is the djembe drum?
This occurs when light bends as it passes from one medium to another, like air to water.
What is refraction?
The distance around a circle is called this.
What is the circumference?
The first paragraph of an essay that introduces the topic and thesis statement.
What is the introduction?
“I have a dream…” is a famous example of this type of repetition in writing.
What is anaphora?
This West African kingdom was extremely wealthy due to gold and salt trade, and its most famous ruler was Mansa Musa.
What is the Mali Empire?
This happens to the motion of water molecules as heat is added.
What is they move faster/more?
You find the volume of this 3D shape by cubing the length of one of its sides.
What a cube?
The main idea of a story is sometimes called this.
What is the theme?
This literary element uses descriptive language to help the reader see, hear, smell, taste, or feel a scene.
What is imagery?
This East African trading kingdom was located along the coast and traded with Arabia and India, becoming rich from ivory and gold.
What is Axum / the Kingdom of Aksum?
When light bounces off a surface, this is happening.
What is reflection?