The Black Plague
Core Concepts
Core Concepts part deux
Trading in Europe
Your Basic Science Category
100

This insect is responsible for carrying the plague bacteria.

What is a flea? 

100

Resource that Earth or people can replace.

What is a renewable resource? 

100

The variety of things living in an ecosystem.

What is biodiversity? 

100

Venetians didn't have much arable land, so they had to do this to survive.

What is trade? 

100
A way of learning more about the natural world.

What is science? 

200

The Black Plague wiped out roughly half of the population of this continent.

What is Europe? 

200

Useful material found in the environment.

What is a natural resource? 

200

The loss of forest cover in a region.

What is deforestation? 

200

Due to the amount of water in Venice, they became experts in this trade.

What is shipbuilding? 

200

An explanation of a phenomenon that occurs repeatedly.

What is a scientific theory? 

300

The Black Plague likely came from this continent and travelled west.

What is Europe? 

300

Nonrenewable resources made of plants and animals that formed over millions of years.

What are fossil fuels? 

300

An effect on someone or something not involved in an activity.

What is spillover? 

300

When Constantinople was conquered by Muslims and had its name changed to this, the Venetians continued trading with it.

What is Istanbul? 

300

A rule that describes a pattern in nature.

What is a scientific law? 

400

The Black Plague broke the back of this economic system, in which land grants are given in exchange for loyalty and military service.

What is feudalism? 

400

Residential area on the edge of a city or large town.

What is a suburb? 

400

Waste that makes the air, soil, or water less clean.

What is pollution? 

400

His body was taken from Alexandria, Egypt and relocated to what is now Italy.

Who is St. Mark? 

400

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Name the three main branches of science.

What are life science, physical science, and Earth science? 

500

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The name for the bacteria that caused the Black Plague.

What is Yersinia Pestis? 

500

The development of machine-powered production and manufacturing.

What is industrialization? 

500

Movement of new settlers and their culture to an area.

What is colonization? 

500

Venice was not a monarchy, but was ruled by an elected leader, known as this form of government.

What is a republic? 

500

The practical use of science to solve a problem.

What is technology? 

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