Patterns in the Sky
MISA I
Earth's System
MISA II
Social Studies
100

This causes shadows to change size and direction throughout the day.

What is the Sun?

100

This force pulls objects toward Earth’s surface.

What is gravity?

100

The layer of gases surrounding Earth.

What is the atmosphere?

100

These imaginary lines run east to west and measure distance north or south of the equator.

What are lines of latitude?

100

This document begins with the words, “We the People…”

What is the Constitution?

200

These groups of stars form patterns that people have used for navigation and storytelling.

What are constellations?

200

An animal that eats only plants.

What is a herbivore?

200

It's made up of all the living things on Earth.

What is a Biosphere?

200

A trait an animal is born with.

What is an inherited trait?

200

The Bill of Rights is what?

What are the first 10 amendments to the Constitution? 

300

Earth spins on this imaginary line, causing day and night.

 What is an axis?

300

These are the smallest units of living things.

What is a cell?

300

Tropical rainforests are found near what part of the world?

What is the equator?

300

Organisms that make their own food.

What are producers?

300

People who worked to include everyone in the Constitution were called what? 

What is a Federlist?

400

This pattern explains why we have different seasons during the year.

What is a revolution?

400

A trait that helps an organism survive in its environment.

What is an adaptation?

400

Name the four layers of the rainforest, in order.

What are emergent, canopy, understory, and forest floor?

400

The push or pull on an object.

What is a force?

400

It granted citizenship to all persons born in the U.S. and guaranteed equal protection under the law, including formerly enslaved people.

What is the 14th Amendment?

500

This star appears to stay in the same place in the sky and helps navigators find north.

What is the North Star?

500

The process plants use to make their own food using sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide.

What is photosynthesis?

500

What body of water flows through the Amazon Rainforest?

What is the Amazonia River?

500

The solid, liquid, and gas states of matter are also called this.

What are states of matter?

500

Slavery was abolished in what year?

What is 1865?

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