3rd Grade
Fill in the blank: A person whoo goes to an unknown place to learn about it is an ________________.
explorer
Fill in the blank:
A land controlled by another nation is called _________.
a colony
Fill in the blank: An _____________ the Spanish had was to convert the Native Americans to their religion.
objective
This word means to find.
discover
Priests built religious communities called _________.
missions
Define: subject
A subject is a person who is ruled by a king or queen
This word means to be based on long-standing customs, beliefs, and ways of doing things.
traditional
This word means when one thing affects another
influence
This word means a written agreement
Treaty
Define: indigenous
native
Use the following word in a sentence: secure
Answers vary
Dams create usable ______
energy
Walls that prevent waves from washing away the land are called
breakwaters
Define kinship
relationship
What means something that is handed down from the past
heritage
Explain what the bold word in this sentence means: Water can be used to produce electric power.
to make
What is a generation?
A period of time between the birth of parents and the birth of their children.
What does it mean to secularize?
to take them away from religious control.
What word means to change hands, or to move from one place to another
transfer
Switch the underlined words for a vocabulary word: In California, culture has parts or bits from the groups that came before us and the groups of today.
In California, culture has elements from the groups that came before us and the groups of today.