The Black Plague
This insect is responsible for carrying the plague bacteria.
What is a flea?
Resource that Earth or people can replace.
What is a renewable resource?
The variety of things living in an ecosystem.
What is biodiversity?
Venetians didn't have much arable land, so they had to do this to survive.
What is trade?
What is science?
The Black Plague wiped out roughly half of the population of this continent.
What is Europe?
Useful material found in the environment.
What is a natural resource?
The loss of forest cover in a region.
What is deforestation?
Due to the amount of water in Venice, they became experts in this trade.
What is shipbuilding?
An explanation of a phenomenon that occurs repeatedly.
What is a scientific theory?
The Black Plague likely came from this continent and travelled west.
What is Europe?
Nonrenewable resources made of plants and animals that formed over millions of years.
What are fossil fuels?
An effect on someone or something not involved in an activity.
What is spillover?
When Constantinople was conquered by Muslims and had its name changed to this, the Venetians continued trading with it.
What is Istanbul?
A rule that describes a pattern in nature.
What is a scientific law?
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?
Residential area on the edge of a city or large town.
What is a suburb?
Waste that makes the air, soil, or water less clean.
What is pollution?
His body was taken from Alexandria, Egypt and relocated to what is now Italy.
Who is St. Mark?
***DAILY DOUBLE***DAILY DOUBLE***
Name the three main branches of science.
What are life science, physical science, and Earth science?
***DAILY DOUBLE***DAILY DOUBLE***
The name for the bacteria that caused the Black Plague.
What is Yersinia Pestis?
The development of machine-powered production and manufacturing.
What is industrialization?
Movement of new settlers and their culture to an area.
What is colonization?
Venice was not a monarchy, but was ruled by an elected leader, known as this form of government.
What is a republic?
The practical use of science to solve a problem.
What is technology?