Middle Ages
King
What fraction of the European population died from the Black Death?
1/3
This is known as the largest continent and where the world's tallest mountain is found.
What do the arrows in a food chain and food web represent?
The flow of energy between organisms
What type of organism uses sunlight to create its food?
Producers
The Magna Carta limited the powers of who?
The king
What people were from Scandinavia who were known for raiding villages in Europe?
Vikings
These are pictures, lines, or dots that stand for something on the map.
Symbols
Plants use this process to turn light into chemical energy
Photosynthesis
What is a prolonged period of abnormally low rainfall, leading to a shortage of water?
Drought
Who was crowned King of England after the Battle of Hastings?
William the Conqueror
VOCAB: In medieval Europe, an agricultural estate that a lord ran and peasants worked.
Name the five oceans that are located on the globe.
the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic, and Southern Oceans
What do we call all the living and nonliving things and the ways they interact in an environment (ex: redwood forest, swamp, Mojave Desert)?
An Ecosystem
Bacteria, fungi, worms, ants, beetles, sow bugs are all examples of what type of animal? (HINT: they break down nutrients)
Decomposers
This French teenager led an army to free the city of Orleans from the English. She was later granted sainthood.
Joan of Arc
VOCAB: In the Middle Ages, the ideal of civilized behavior that developed among the nobility; it was a code of ethics that knights were supposed to uphold.
Chivalry
What is the invisible line that divides the globe into the eastern and western hemispheres?
Prime Meridian
What is the scientific name for living and nonliving things?
Living = biotic
Nonliving = abiotic
In the ecosystem pyramid, what "step" describes all the populations living in one place?
Community
The 100 Years War was fought between which two countries?
France and England
Name one thing King John did that made him unpopular with the people of England. (There are three things we discussed in class)
He raised taxes, he got in trouble with the Pope, he held people hostage if they didn't pay taxes
What four important components should all maps have, to ensure the reader understands the map?
Scale, Key/Legend, Compass Rose, Title
What is an animal that eats plants or other animals and does not make its own food.
Consumer
What are the two types of ecosystems?
Aquatic and Terrestrial