UAE Social Studies & History
He was the founding father and the first president of the United Arab Emirates.
Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan
This part of speech is a word used to replace a noun, such as "he", "she", or "it"
pronoun
This is the place value of the digit 7 in the number 4,732
hundreds place
This is the process by which green plants use sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide to create their own food and release oxygen.
photosynthesis
Standing at 828 meters tall in Dubai, this iconic structure is the tallest man-made building in the world.
Burj Khalifa
The UAE is a federation made up of this exact number of emirates
seven
A figure of speech that compares two distinct things using the words "like" or "as"
simile
A triangle in which all three sides are of perfectly equal length.
equilateral triangle
These are the three primary states of matter commonly found on Earth
solid, liquid, and gas
In 2019, he made history by becoming the very first Emirati astronaut to travel into space.
Hazza Al Mansouri
Celebrated every year on December 2nd, this national occasion marks the formal unification of the emirates in 1971.
UAE National Day
In literature, this term refers to the central message, deeper moral, or underlying lesson of a story.
theme
If a school hoodie costs 120 AED and there is a 25% discount, this is the amount of money you save.
30 AED
This invisible force pulls objects toward the center of the Earth and gives objects their weight.
gravity
The UAE's robotic space probe, named Hope (Al-Amal), was successfully sent to orbit and study the atmosphere of this planet.
Mars
This traditional UAE folk dance involves rhythmic movement and poetry performed by two rows of men holding thin bamboo sticks.
Al-Ayyala
This punctuation mark is used to show ownership or to indicate where letters have been left out in a contraction
apostrophe
This is the mathematical term for any whole number greater than 1 that can only be divided evenly by 1 and itself.
prime number
Often called the "powerhouse of the cell," this organelle generates most of the chemical energy needed to power cellular reactions.
mitochondrion
Located in Abu Dhabi, this project is known as the world's first fully planned, sustainable eco-city reliant on solar and renewable energy
Masdar City
Before the discovery of oil in the mid-20th century, this was the primary maritime industry driving the economy of the Trucial States.
pearl diving
This literary device involves the repetition of the same consonant sound at the very beginning of closely connected words.
alliteration
The value of x when solving the algebraic equation:
8
On the pH scale, a solution with a value of 2 is considered to be highly this
acidic
Because natural freshwater sources are scarce, the UAE relies heavily on this industrial process to turn seawater into clean drinking water.
desalination