6/7 Grade Social Studies
What was the first form a writing called? It used wedge shapes to represent words.
Cuneiform
This was the first British colony in the Americas better known as the lost Colony
Roanoke on Roanoke Island
What are the 3 types of Symmetry
Radial, Asymmetry, Bilateral Symmetry
List the 4 layers or levels of the from inner most layer to outer most layer
Inner Core, Outer Core, Mantle, Crust
What gets Wetter As it Dyes
a Towel
The first Greek civilization developed on this island in the Aegean Sea just south of the Greek Mainland?
Crete
Who was the leader of the Continental Army and later the first President of the United States
George Washington
Three main Parts of the scientific method
Hypothesis, Observation/ Collecting Data, Experimentation
What is molten rock called before it breaks through the earths crust.
Magma
What has Many Keys but can't open a single lock
a Piano
What is the first code of law called. Commonly know as an eye for an Eye
Hammurabi's Code of Law
This Spanish explorer defeated the great Aztec King Montezuma?
Hernando Cortez
List the complexity of the body starting with your most simple to your complex
Cell, Tissue, organ, Organ System, Body
What are the 4 spheres that make earth livable.
Biosphere, Atmosphere, Hydrosphere, Geosphere.
Bonus: What other sphere is under the Hydrosphere
Where does today come before Yesterday?
the Dictionary
How may kingdoms where there in Egypt
3 Old, Middle, New
What was the United State first form of Government
Articles of Confederations
What are the two vascular tissues in a plant
Xylem and Phloem
What are the 3 types of Volcanoes
Shield, Composite, Cinder
I Have Lakes with no water, Mountains with no stones, and cities with no buildings. What am I?
A Map
This Greek King conquered Anatolia, Syria, Phoenicia, Egypt, Mesopotamia, Persia, Afghanistan, and of parts India. Before dying at the age of 32. Who was he.
Alexander the Great of Macedon.
Bonus Question how many battles did he lose?
This founding Father Died during a dual. He is also the founder of the national bank.
Alexander Hamilton
What are 4 of the 12 major body systems
Cardiovascular, Respiratory, Digestive, Urinary, Lymphatic, Integumentary, Skeletal, Muscular, Nervous, Endocrine, Reproductive
Name the planets in order starting from the one closet to the sun.
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
What breaks yet never falls, and what falls yet never breaks
Day and Night
Day break / Night fall