Vocabulary
Religious Holidays
Holidays to Honor Others
Holidays to Celebrate Freedom
Hemispheres
100
This is a special day for remembering an important person or event.
What is a holiday?
100
This holiday celebrates the birth of Jesus.
What is Christmas?
100
This holiday is celebrated for seven days by African Americans to honor their ancestors.
What is Kwanzaa?
100
This holiday is celebrated by the Mexican people to remember their victory over the French who invaded their country.
What is Cinco de Mayo?
100
This imaginary line separates the Northern Hemisphere from the Southern Hemisphere.
What is the Equator?
200
This is a special way that a group does something.
What is a tradition?
200
This holiday is celebrated by Muslims during Ramadan.
What is Eid-al-Fitr?
200
This holiday is celebrated to honor the Irish culture by wearing green and having parades.
What is St. Patrick's Day?
200
This holiday is celebrated to remember those who died in our country's wars on the last Monday in May.
What is Memorial Day?
200
The Earth is in the shape of a ___________.
What is a sphere?
300
These are farm animals raised on local farms.
What is livestock?
300
This holiday is celebrated for eight days by Jewish families.
What is Hanukkah?
300
This special day is celebrated to remember the people who started a community.
What is Founders Day?
300
This holiday is celebrated to remember our victory over England during the Revolutionary War.
What is Independence Day?
300
The prime meridian separates these two hemispheres.
What are the Eastern and Western?
400
This is the line that separates the Eastern from the Western Hemisphere.
What is the prime meridian?
400
Christmas, Eid-al-Fitr, and Hanukkah celebrate with special meals and the giving of __________.
What are gifts?
400
This holiday is celebrated to remember the leader of the Civil Rights Movement.
What is Martin Luther King, Jr. Day?
400
This holiday honors all who have served in the United States armed forces.
What is Veterans Day?
400
The United States is located in these two hemispheres.
What are the Northern and the Western?
500
This was a drive for equal treatment of all citizens.
What is the Civil Rights Movement?
500
Christmas and Hanukkah are celebrated with the lighting of ______________.
What are candles?
500
This holiday is celebrated to honor God for his gifts of a plentiful harvest.
What is Thanksgiving Day?
500
This holiday is celebrated to remember Martin Luther King, Jr.'s fight for freedom on the third Monday in __________.
What is January?
500
These two continents are located in the Western Hemisphere.
What are North America and South America?
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