Social Studies
The event where colonists dressed up like Native Americans and dumped tea into a harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
The formula for area.
What is length times width?
The Earth System that is all the land and rock the planet is made of.
What is the Geosphere?
When we look for similarities and differences in things.
What is compare and contrast?
Who is Malfoy?
Who used Doubledorfs wand last?
He hung a lantern in a church
What was the system Paul Revere set up to signal the British were coming?
The formula for volume
What is length times width times height?
The Earth System that is all the water on earth and moisture in the air.
What is the Hydrosphere?
Something we might say about a person if that person is financially successful in everything they do.
They have the "Midas Touch."
What are dinosaurs?
A settlement of people who leave one country to live in another
What is a colony?
A quadrilateral with four equal sides and four 90 degree angles
What is a square?
The Earth System that is all the living organisms on the planet.
What is the Biosphere?
The order of events in a text.
What is sequence?
Synonyms: Which word is a synonym for "insolent"?
a. penniless
b. happy
c. disrespectful
What is disrespectful?
The Native Americans who lived in the area where the English came to settle in Jamestown, Virginia.
Who were the Powhatan? (pow-uh-TAN)
The tool you use to measure angles
What is a protractor?
The Earth System that is the thin layer of gases that surrounds the earth.
What is the Atmosphere?
The fictional story of a 10 year old boy born with a horrible face deformity who was previously homeschooled and starts public school in the fifth grade.
What is the book Wonder?
Parts of Speech: The snake's slender body helps it glide silently through the grass.
What is a verb?
A man who became a leader in Jamestown who knew how to survive the harsh wilderness. He was also saved by Pocahontas.
Who was Captain John Smith?
Five types of quadrilaterals with two sets of parallel lines.
What are trapezoids, rectangles, squares, parallelograms, and rhombuses?
What are trapezoids, rectangles, squares, parallelograms, and rhombuses?
The phenomenon that causes an area to have little precipitation due to the effect a mountain range that causes the prevailing winds to lose their moisture on the windward side, causing the leeward side to be dry.
What is a Rain Shadow?
When we use background knowledge along with clues in the text to come up with our own ideas about what the author is trying to present.
What is making an inference?
Double meaning: An object that tells time, and to look at something.
What is a watch?