Most people use the term novel, _______ to any long fictional story in the prose.

The term technology is derived from the Greek tekhne, ______that relates to art or craft, and logic.

The average size of an American farm is about _________.

The Antarctic is so icy and barren that people cannot live there for a _______ period.

The world's oceans are filled with ________, octopuses, sea mammals, and numerous other creatures.

__________, people could make lasting records of their laws, religions, folk tales, poetry, and business deals.

__________ are found in both fresh and salt water and in the soil.

Hardy Andean Indians still live ________ up in the Andes Mountains.

Modern buildings in Amsterdam rest on __________ concrete piles that go deep into the sandy soil.

Andre Marie Ampere, a French mathematician and scientist, was born at Polemieux, near the Lyons, France.

In 1820, Hans Christian Oersted, a Danish scientist, discovered that an electricity current can move the needle of a compass.

A seashell range in value from a few cents to hundreds, or even thousands, of dollars.

Acadia is a region in eastern North America that became a site of the first European colony in Canada.

Roman sculptors copied many of their statues from the Greeks, but they also made some remarkable handsome portrait sculpture.

The Japanese value calligraphy as high as do the Chinese.

The word acoustic refers to the quality of sound as hearing in a room or building.

The syllabi for the courses this semester is in the packet of the materials.

There have been a dramatic decline in the number of wild salmon moving up stream to spawn.

Acrylic plastics are less breakable than glass but being more easily scratched.