Famous People/Gov't/Greece
Rocks/Minerals/Soils
Economics
Habitats/Geography
Heat/Magnets/Fossils
100
These are the three branches of government
What are the Executive, Judicial and Legislative Branches?
100
Rocks are minerals and minerals are rocks, true or false?
What is false? Rocks contain minerals, minerals are found inside of rocks, but they are not rocks.
100
These are the terms for people who make goods or perform services and those who buy goods or services
What are producers and consumers?
100
This is what we call the place where plants, animals and organisms live.
What is a habitat?
100
This is what we call the ends of magnets and the name for each end
What are poles? Magnets have two poles, N = North and S = South
200
These are the names of democracies used in the U.S. and Greece, with definitions of each
What are democracies where all citizens vote (direct democracy - Greece) and democracies where the people elect someone / a representative to speak/act on their behalf (representative democracy - U.S.)?
200
The three types of rocks are called (what) and each kind is created through (what process)
What are metamorphic, igneous and sedimentary? $100 What are heat & pressure (metamorphic), heat & cooling (igneous) and pressure/layers (sedimentary) $100
200
This is what we call it when we have to give something up (or make a choice) in order to get what we want most
What is opportunity cost?
200
This is what we call it when animals change in order to live or survive in their environment
Adapt/Adaptation
200
These are the words that mean "pull together" and "push apart" with an example of each one
What is attract (pull together) and repel (push apart)? Opposite poles attract one another, same poles repel one another
300
These are the three ways that Ancient Greece influenced the U.S. and examples of each
What are columns (architecture), voting for representatives (democracy), and medals, a torch, lots of events, every 2 years, men and women compete (Olympic games)
300
These are the types of soil and their particle size
What are sand, silt, clay and loam? sand (large), silt (medium), clay (small) - loam is a mixture of sand, silt and clay.
300
These are the four types of economic resources and examples for each one
What are natural, human, capital resources and entrepreneurship? Examples of each type are: natural (wood, trees, water, soil, plants); human (doctor, dentist, teacher, baker, office worker, etc); capital (tools & equipment - hammers, trucks, tractors, computers, etc); entrepreneurship (business owners, people who turn ideas for products and services into usable items)
300
These are the names for the invisible lines that run North/South, East/West, around the middle of the globe and the line that starts at 0 degrees and runs North/South?
What are the lines of Longitude, Latitude, Equator and Prime Meridian?
300
These are the terms for the movement of thermal energy from hotter to cooler objects and how hot or how cold something is
What is heat and temperature? heat (the movement of thermal energy from hotter to cooler objects) and temperature (hot or how cold something is)
400
These are the definitions of diligence, cooperation, and tolerance
What is never giving up, no matter what problems occur; working hard over a long period of time (diligence) What is working with others for the benefit/good of many people (cooperation) What is accepting people who are different than we are (tolerance)
400
What do we call the process that forms rocks?
What is the rock cycle?
400
These are what we call the things that we don't really need but would like to have and those we have to have to survive
What is a want (toys, books, movies, games, etc)? What is a need (food, clothes, shelter, water)?
400
These are the five regions of Georgia
What are the Blue Ridge Mountains, Piedmont Plateau, Upper Coastal Plain (Ocean), Lower Coastal Plain (Swamps & Marshes and Coast)?
400
These are the things that keep heat in or let heat escape and examples of each
What are insulators (styrafoam, lids, air, water, plastic) and conductors (metals - silver, aluminum, copper, steel)?
500
These are the names of Famous Americans and what they fought for
What are: Liberty or freedom from British rule (Paul Revere); Freedom of Speech/End of Slavery (Frederick Douglass); Women's Rights/Suffrage (Susan B. Anthony); Education (Mary McLeod Bethune); Cooperation/Tolerance & World Peace (Eleanor Roosevelt); The New Deal & Cooperation (Franklin D. Roosevelt); Civil Rights (Lyndon B. Johnson); Justice/Respect for Authority (Thurgood Marshall); Equal Rights (Cesar Chavez) ($55 for each correct, or $500 if you get every one correct)
500
These are things that break down rocks and this is what we call the breaking down or movement of rocks and dirt from place to place
What is weathering and erosion due to water, wind, ice?
500
Explain the difference between a renewable and a nonrenewable resource and give an example of each
What are resources that can be replaced (renewable) and resources that cannot be replaced (non-renewable) energy from sun, wind; oils from plants and seeds; fruits and vegetables, meat from animals (renewable); coal, gas, oil or petroleum (non-renewable)
500
These are the five rivers and two mountain ranges of the U.S. and the three large bodies of water surrounding the U.S.
What are the Colorado, Rio Grande, Mississippi, Ohio, Hudson Rivers; the Rocky and Appalachian Mountains; and the Pacific Ocean, Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Ocean?
500
These are four different types of fossils the steps in which a fossil is created
What are cast, mold, trace and amber fossils? First, the animal dies. Then, the skin and other soft parts rot away. Next, the hard parts are buried under layers of dirt and sand. After millions of years, the bones turn into rock. Then, the Earth’s surface moves and cracks. Finally, people can see the fossil.
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