Review Questions 1
This material was used to make metal coffins for wealthy people in colonial Maryland.
Lead
This is the name for a scientist who studies history using graves and bones.
Forensic Anthropologist
This is the name of the first successful English colony.
Jamestown
What are the 3 types of verbs?
Action, linking, helping
What is an adjective?
A describing word; a word that modifies a noun or pronoun
This crop was grown to make money by the English in colonial America.
Tobacco
This crop was harvested by the Native Americans and traded with the English for various things.
Corn
This is the year English colonists founded Jamestown.
1607
What does a linking verb do?
Links the subject with the predicate
List 6 adjectives
This metal causes green stains to appear when it decomposes.
Copper
This is a type of servant that sells themselves for 7 years to gain passage to North America.
Indentured Servant
This is the part of a 17th century home where food is stored and where trash is thrown.
Cellar
Identify the helping verb and main verb in his sentence. I should text my friend after school.
should text
What are the adjectives in this sentence?
The small dog barked at the skittish cat.
small, skittish
This was found in the grave of "The Captain" and helped scientists determine the importance of the skeleton.
Leading Staff
This is the name of the tribe who fought the English at Jamestown.
Powhatan
This is the process in which the soil is removed from a skeleton but left underneath it.
Pedestal
Identify the verbs in this sentence.
Yesterday I went to the mall and bought a new hat.
went & bought
What are the adjectives in this sentence?
I wanted to order Chinese food, but my dad wanted to make turkey burgers.
Chinese. turkey
This type of isotope helps scientists determine how long a person was in America before he/she died.
Carbon-13
This was used to look inside the lead coffins without opening them.
Gamma Ray
This is the name for the winter of 1608-09, during which a large number of Jametown's population died of hunger.
The Starving Time
Identify the verbs in this sentence.
The cookies smelled delicious while I was baking them.
smelled & baking
What are the adjectives in this sentence?
The weatherman said it was going to be a dark, gloomy morning with a slight chance of sunshine in the afternoon.
dark, gloomy