Vocab
What word means "feeling someone else's feelings"
Empathy
Divergent evolution is what happens when two species become more similar.
True / False
False - Divergent means to go apart, become different
Choose EITHER a page or a squire and describe their duties.
Page - Young child around 7 years old. Learn how to take care for horses and armor.
Squire - Around 14 years old, they learn etiquette, how to talk, fight. They are responsible for the knights horse and armor.
Knights and Samurai.
How were they different, and how were they similar?
Both followed a code of honor
Both were warriors
Both had to defend a Lord of Daimyo
Knights had Pages and Squires to train and do stuff for them
Samurai did poetry, gardening, art, etc
What is Ms.Yunah's favorite jjigae?
Boodae Jjigae
What word means "bold, strong-willed"
Selective breeding is where humans choose and breed certain traits.
True / False
True - We selectively breed dogs to make them bigger, smaller, cuter, or fluffy!
Where did Vikings come from?
Why was it easy for them to attack England?
The Vikings came from Scandinavia - Norway, Denmark, Sweden....
It was easy to attack because their boats were flat bottomed and could sail up rivers. They attacked monasteries and churches to plunder gold from defenseless monks.
Explain ‘Feudalism’. Provide details about how it worked, affected societies and more.
Feudalism was a King that owned all the land.
He gave land to Lords for a promise they'd support him.
Lords gave land to knights for a promise to serve in the army.
Knights gave land to serfs or peasants to work in exchange for protection.
Serfs gave taxes up to Knights etc
What is Ms.Yunah's favorite animal?
Giraffe
The soldiers are __________________ the village and stealing all the villagers' gold.
A. Dismaying
B. Selecting
C. Plundering
Choose one animal, and explain how it has adapted to survive climate change.
Birds have longer and larger beaks to cool their blood in higher temperatures.
Polar bears are hybridizing with grizzly bears to make pizzly bears.
Squids are shrinking in size.
Birds are migrating to different places for food and shelter.
Lizards are evolving shorter limbs to hold trees during hurricanes.
What did Tariq Bin Ziyad make his soldiers do when they reached Spain?
Tariq Bin Ziyad made his men burn their boats so they would fight and win, or die. No retreat.
Why are people becoming resistant to antibiotics? What can we do to avoid this problem?
To much use of antibiotics creates super-bacteria. Super-bacteria survive the antibiotics and now have all the resources that other bacteria would have used and they can grow and multiply a lot more.
We can stop using so much hand sanitizer and antibiotics to reduce the creation of new super-bacteria.
How many siblings does Ms.Yunah have?
1 (a sister)
Doctors always __________________ the benefits of a healthy diet and exercise to their patients.
A. Graze
B. Promote
C. Chortle
Promote
Choose one microorganism, and explain how it can be both harmful and helpful.
Bacteria - make us sick and we have it in our body to help digest food.
Viruses - make us sick, bacteriophages that target specific germs, dead or weak viruses can be used for vaccines.
Why did Eric the Red leave Iceland? Why did he call his new country 'Greenland’?
Explain how natural selection helps animals evolve.
Natural selection means mutations that help you get food, survive, or have babies makes you stronger.
If a giraffe is cute but short, it can't eat and has no babies.
If the giraffe has a longer neck and can eat more, it gets stronger and can have more babies. Those babies have longer necks until they're the best at getting food.
What European country has Ms.Yunah lived in?
France
The volcano __________________ out lava and ash during the eruption last year.
Spewed
Explain how EITHER antibiotics or vaccines work.
Antibiotics -
Bactericides like mold break cell walls and kill bacteria.
Bacteriostatics stop germs for reproducing by destroying DNA in the cell.
Vaccine -
Inject dead or weak viruses into the body to teach the immune system how to fight the real virus.
Which Frankish King became a Christian, and why?
Clovis became Christian because he was losing a battle and promised to be Christian if god won the battle for him.
Which king was better for the Franks: Charlemagne or Clovis? Why?
Explain your answer
How old is Ms.Yunah?
95