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- What is the metric unit for length?
- meter
- What is the metric unit for area?
- are
- What is the metric unit for volume?
- stere
- What is the metric unit for capacity?
- liter
- What is the metric unit for mass and weight?
- gram
- kilo** = ______**
- 1,000
- hecto** = ______**
- 100
- deka** = ______**
- 10
- deci** = ______**
- .10
- centi** = ______**
- .01
- Milli** = ______**
- .001
- quintal = ______grams
- 100,000
- metric ton = ______grams
- 1,000,000
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Roman Numeral
L = ? - 50
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Roman Numeral
C = ? - 100
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Roman Numeral
D = ? - 500
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Roman Numeral
M = ? - 1,000
- Name for the King of the Gods
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Zeus (Greek)
Jupiter (Roman)
Odin (Norse) - Queen of the Gods
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Hera (Greek)
Juno (Roman)
Frigga (Norse) - Dwelling place of the Gods
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Mt. Olympus (Greek)
Asgard (Norse) - God and ruler of the sea
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Poseidon (Greek)
Neptune (Roman)
Njord (Norse) - God and ruler of the dead
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Hades (Greek)
Pluto (Roman) - Goddess of agriculture
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Demeter (Greek)
Ceres (Roman) - Goddess of hearth
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Hestia (Greek)
Vesta (Roman) - Daugther of King of Gods who sprang full-blown from the head of her father
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Athena (Greek)
Minerva (Roman - Daughter of God King and Goddess of Agriculture
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Persephone (Greek)
Proserpina (Roman) - Wife of Hades
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Persephone (Greek)
Proserpina (Roman) - Twin children of God King and Leto
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Apollo and Artemis (Greek)
Apollo and Diana (Roman) - Goddess of the Moon, the Hunt, Woods and Wild Animas
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Artemis (Greek)
Diana (Roman) - God of male beauty
- Adonis
- God of fire and thunderbolts
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Hephaistos (Greek)
Vulcan (Roman) - Goddess of sexual love
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Aphrodite (Greek)
Venus (Roman)
Freya (Norse) - Goddess of the Dawn
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Eos (Greek)
Aurora (Roman) - God of youth
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Hebe (Greek)
Juventas (Roman) - God of sleep
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Hypnos (Greek)
Somnus (Roman) -
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Algeria - Ancient Numidia
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Angola - Portuguese West Africa
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Belize - British Honduras
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Botswana - Bechuanaland
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Chad - French Equatoria Africa
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Congo - Middle Congo
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Croatia - Yugoslavia
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Czech Republic - Czechoslovakia
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Iran - Persia
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Tunisia - Ancient Carthage
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Mozambique - Portuguese East Africa
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Madagascar - Malagasy Republic
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Thailand - Siam
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Sri Lanka - Ceylon
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Senegal - French West Africa
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Taiwan - Formosa
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Zimbabwe - Rhodesia
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Vietnam - French Indo-China
- abrogate
- To nullify, to abolish
- abjure
- To remounce or reject
- accretion
- A gradual build-up or enlargement.
- adjunct
- Something added to another thing, but not part of it
- aesthete
- Someone devoted to beauty
- aggrandize
- To make bigger or greater, to inflate
- amalgamate
- To blend thoroughly
- ameliorate
- To make something more tolerable
- amortize
- To pay off or reduce a debt gradually through periodic payments
- anachronistic
- Out of the proper time
- asperity
- Harshness, severity
- assail
- To attack as with words or blows
- assay
- To analyze for particular components
- assuage
- To ease, to pacify
- aver
- To claim to be true
- avow
- To declar boldly
- bombastic
- Inflated or pompous in style
- burgeon
- To bloom, literally or figuratively
- buttress
- Something that supports or strengthens
- cadge
- To beg for, mooch
- chary
- Slow to accept, cautious
- chronology
- An arrangement of events by order of occurrence, a list of dates