Social Studies: Maps & More
What are the four main directions on a compass?
What are north, south, east, and west (cardinal directions)?
What kind of word is run, jump, or eat?
What is a verb?
What do we call the problem in a story?
What is the conflict?
This word names something you can eat, like “pizza.”
What is a noun?
Landform: What do we call a tall, rocky area of land that rises high above the land around it?
What is a mountain?
What tool on a map shows directions?
What are words like is, was, and were called when they help the main verb?
What are helping verbs?
What do we call the events that happen in the story in order?
What is the plot?
The word “city” is not a specific place, but a general name for many places.
What is a common noun?
Climate: What does the word "climate" mean?
What is the usual weather in a place over a long time?
What is a map key (legend) used for?
What is to explain what the symbols on the map mean?
What's it called when a word means something different than what it says, like "It's raining cats and dogs"?
What is an idiom?
What's it called when you compare two things using like or as?
What is a simile?
The word “New York” names a specific city and always starts with a capital letter.
What is a proper noun?
Natural Resource: What is a natural resource?
What is something found in nature that people use, like water, trees, or coal?
What do we call the lines that make it easier to find places on a map?
What is a grid system?
What's a metaphor?
What is a comparison that says one thing is another, like "Time is a thief"?
What do you call the message or lesson in a story?
What is the theme?
Instead of saying “Maria,” we can say “she.”
What is a pronoun?
Natural Hazard: What is a natural hazard that shakes the ground?
What is an earthquake?
What do you use to measure the distance between two places on a map?
What is the map scale?
Which part of speech describes a noun and answers questions like what kind? and which one?
What is an adjective?
What is the difference between first-person and third-person point of view?
What is first-person uses "I" and third-person uses "he," "she," or "they"?
Words like “I,” “you,” and “they” take the place of specific people in a sentence.
What is a personal pronoun?
What type of area is Rozelle Elementary located in (inner city, suburbs, rural)?
What is an inner city?