The Amazing Brain
Systems and Organization
Exploration & Conquest
The First People
Academic Language
100
These are the three main parts of the brain.
What are the cerebrum, cerebellum and brain stem?
100
This system protects and supports the body.
What is the skeletal system?
100
During this exchange the Native Americans and Europeans traded goods and products.
What is the Colombian Exchange?
100
These indigenous people belonged to different tribal groups such as the Aztecs, Incas, Tainos.
Who were the first people in the Americas?
100
This term is used to describe what a passage or text is mostly about.
What is the main idea?
200
This part of the brain is responsible for speech, thoughts, learning and emotions.
What is the cerebrum?
200
This system breaks down food so that the body can use its energy.
What is the digestive system?
200
This person conquered the Aztec Empire.
Who is Hernando Cortes?
200
This ruler of the Aztec's empire was overthrown by Cortes during the 1500's.
Who was Moctezuma II?
200
This tool arranges events in the order in which they take place.
What is a timeline?
300
This part of the brain is responsible for coordination.
What is the cerebellum?
300
This system moves the body and substances within the body.
What is the muscular system?
300
These people revolted in the New World after being taken from their homes.
Who were the enslaved Africans?
300
New diseases from Europe cause the population decline of these people from an estimate of 30 million to about 3 million?
Who were the Native Americans?
300
These small pieces of information support the main idea.
What are details?
400
This part of the brain is responsible for controlling automatic processes, such as breathing and keeping our heart beating.
What is the brain stem?
400
This system directs the body's physical and mental activities. The brain is a part of this system.
What is the nervous system?
400
These items were passed off in the Colombian exchange: smallpox, horses, iron weapons.
What did the Europeans trade?
400
The great city of Tenochtitlan was destroyed by these Spanish conquerors?
Who are the conquistadors?
400
These come at the beginning of every lesson, section, and sub-section and can be used to predict the main idea.
What are titles, headings and subheadings?
500
If you injure this part of your brain, you may have difficulty speaking or learning.
What is the cerebrum?
500
Put in order from smallest to largest: organ, cell, organ system, tissue, organism.
Cell, tissue, organ, organ system, organism.
500
These items were passed off from the west in the Columbian Exchange.
What are pumpkins, wild turkey and corn?
500
This city was the capital of the Aztec empire since the early 1300's.
What is Tenochitlan?
500
This term describes a relationship in which one thing happens as a result of another.
What is a cause and effect relationship?
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