THE NAZCA LINES

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HUGE

Of exceedingly great size, extent, or quantity.

• enormous • giant • great • vast Puzzle

To ponder over a problem in an effort to solve or

understand it.

• amaze • complicate • disturb • perplex

Formulate

To put into or express in systematic terms; express

in or as if in a formula.

• define • develop • devise • draft Massive

large in scale, amount, or degree: a massive dose.

• enormous • grand • huge • mammoth

Depicting

a representation by picture or portraiture.

• paint • represent • sketch • image

Ritual

any customary observance or practice.

• custom • habit • observance • practice

Sacred

exclusively devoted to a deity or to some religious ceremony.

• holy• blessed

The Nazca Lines are huge ______________ found on the desert of Peru.

Researchers have ____________ over these pictures for many years.

They _______________________ theories about them.

Some scientists believe they are art works that should be looked at from the air.

Others believe the drawings are used to mark areas that were _______ tothe Nazca people.

The images depict animals and figures found at other religious sites.