S.S. Terms
An object made by people long ago
What is an artifact?
The smallest unit of matter.
What is an atom?
The three most common states of matter.
What are solid, liquid, and gas (must have all 3)?
Some of the the first plants humans domesticated.
What are grains?
The early farming technique of planting beans, squash and corn together used in the Americas.
What is "three sisters" planting?
The long period of time before people started using written language.
What is prehistory?
Matter with 1 kind of atom
What is an element
Scientists use these to describe the appearance of atoms because they are too small to be seen.
What are models?
Some of the first animals humans domesticated.
What are dogs, goats, cattle or sheep? (any of these answers will be accepted).
A root vegetable found in both South America and the Pacific Islands, considered evidence of people developing ocean-going skills.
What is the sweet potato?
The raising of plants and animals.
What is agriculture?
The part of an atom with protons and neutrons.
What is the nucleus.
An elements atomic number is the same as the number of these it has.
What are protons.
A useful insect that early humans domesticated.
What are honeybees (silkworms is also an acceptable answer)?
The variety of these in both the Americas and Europe caused several diverse cultures to develop.
What are landforms?
The technology, customs, beliefs, and art of a people.
What is culture?
A substance formed when 2 or more elements are joined together.
What is a compound?
Elements are arranged on this, and organized by atomic number.
What is the periodic table?
The part of the stone age characterized by little change in technology (and spanning a much longer period of time).
What is the Old Stone Age?
Early forms of this were made by mixing ground up rock and animal fat or saliva.
What is paint?
The way in which humans produce the items they use.
What is technology?
A state of matter where particles shake violently at very high temperatures.
What is plasma?
This is the sum of an atoms protons and neutrons.
What is atomic mass?
The period when lot's of technological progress happened, ending when humans began to discover and use metal for tools.
What is the New Stone Age?
Things archaeologists get information from these 3 things to study prehistoric people.
What are tools, discards (or trash), and art?