Unit 2 - Vocab words

For their family vacation, the Jones family wanted to visit a sunny and warm destination, so they picked a __________ location neat the Equator.

Each Maya city-state had a ​ ​ (a)   at its center. These buildings for religious worship occupied the top level of pyramids and were reserved for rulers and priests.

• temple
• pyramid
• civilization
• empire

_________ ruins mark the landscape where the Aztec Empire once existed.

What is population?

• The number of people who live in a particular area.

• The number of babies that born in a particular area.

• The number of people that die in a particular area.

• The number of immigrants that live in a particular area.

What does the word "Indigenous" mean?

• produced, living, or existing naturally in a particular area

• foreign

• friendly

• indivisible

Peninsula

• a piece of land surrounded by water

• any of the world's main continuous expanses of land

• a piece of land surrounded on three sides by water or projecting out into a body of water

• an area or region with regard to its physical features

​ (a)   a group of people living together in a well-organized way

• civilization
• monument
• population
• empire

_______ a building or statue that honors a person or an event

_______ a tropical wooded area with very tall trees that gets a lot of rain

Over time, the Aztec civilization grew into a magnificient _____ with cities under one supreme leader