Holt Jr. High
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Seventh Grade Social Studies
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The Olympics
100

The principal of Holt Jr. High.

Who is Mr. Bobeda?

100

This allows you to tell distance on a map.

What is a scale?

100

What is Mr. Marshall's Firstname

What is Thomas?

100

A low area of land that is saturated with water where trees and high shrubs grow.  

What is a swamp?

100

The number of circles on the Olympic flag.

What is five?

200

The 7th grade art teacher.

Who is Mrs. C-B (Mrs. Crosby-Boerma)?

200

These lines are also called parallels on a map.  They are drawn east to west, but actually measure north and south of the Equator.

What are (lines of) latitude?

200

How does your teacher start class?

What is he says hello or greets all of us?

200

These lines are also called meridians on a map.  They are drawn north to south from pole-to-pole, but actually measure east and west of the Prime Meridian.

What are (lines of) longitude?

200

Athletes in the Greek Olympics has to swear an oath in front of a statue of which Greek God? 

Who is Zeus?

300

The librarian at Holt Jr. High.

Who is Mrs. Garrison?

300

These temples were used to worship the gods of a city in Ancient Mesopotamia. They were usually built in the center of the city.

What is a Ziggurat?

300

The first activity of class daily?

What is the DAILY QUESTION?

300

A form of government in which the power is in the hands of an individual who has seized control—often illegally.

What is a tyranny?

300

A martial art type of boxing/wrestling event with few rules. 

What was the pankration?

400

The 7th grade counselor.

Who is Mr. Eidelson?

400

The process of preparing a body for the afterlife in Ancient Egypt.

What is mummification?

400

Mr. Marshall's. lessons and classwork mostly.

What is synchronous?

400

The main city (often in the middle of a city-state) in Ancient Egypt.

What is a polis?

400

At which site (in Ancient Greece) were the first Olympics held?

What is Mt. Olympus?

500

The name of our attendance secretary at Holt Jr. High.

Who is Mrs. Wright?

500

A group of countries or territories that are under the control of a single leader.

What is an empire?

500

In which classroom would you have met Mr. Marshall if we attended face-to-face this semester?

What is D-1?

500

The first known army to use iron weapons.

Who were the Assyrians?

500

The Olympic Motto (in English, not Latin).

What is, "Higher, Faster, Stronger?"