ELA
MATH
HISTORY
Explorers
American
Landmarks
100

a roadmap to the book, listing names, places, and things in alphabetical order and giving the page numbers associated with each topic.

What is the Index?

100

This image is called

What is a bar graph?

100

Events occurring before written records are considered this type of history. 

What is prehistory?

100

The famous explorer who gave his name to the continent we live on.  

Who is Amerigo Vespucci?

100

This copper statue is a near-universal symbol of freedom and democracy and a welcoming sight to immigrants arriving by sea since 1886.

What is the Statue of Liberty?

200

taking someone's words or ideas as if they were your own

what is plagiarism

200

I would find this if I multiplied L and W

L x W= ___

What is length times width equals AREA.

200

This ancient 'Boy King' is more famous in death than he was in life. His once hidden tomb was full of treasures, including a golden coffin and golden face mask.

Who is King Tutankhamun or King Tut?

200

These 2 Virginians led an expedition of the Louisiana Territory that took them from Missouri to the Pacific Ocean. 

Who are Lewis and Clark?

200

Located in Arizona this deep gorge is geologically significant because it's rock layers record much of the early geologic history of the North American continent.

What is the Grand Canyon?

300

a mental position from which things are perceived

what is 'point of view'?

300

Refers to calculating a value using operands and a math operator.

What is an Operation?

300

This plague from the 14th century traveled from Asia to Europe, leaving devastation in its wake. Some estimates suggest that it wiped out over half of Europe's population. It was caused by a strain of the bacterium Yersinia pestis that is likely extinct today and was spread by fleas on infected rodents.

What is the Black Death.

300

She was the daughter of a Shoshone chief and acted as the interpreter for Lewis and Clark on her adventure. She was crucial in emphasising the peaceful nature of Lewis and Clark’s mission to the native tribes.

Who was Sacagawea?

300

This granite monument to several US Presidents is located in the South Dakota Black Hills. 

What is Mount Rushmore?

400

e.g., dictionaries, glossaries, thesauruses 

both print and digital materials used to find the pronunciation of a word or determine or clarify its precise meaning or its part of speech. 

What are Reference materials?

400

a graph that displays data as points or check marks above a number line, showing the frequency of each value

What is a line plot?

400

This series of athletic competitions was originally a festival held in honor of Zeus; events such as a footrace, a javelin contest, and wrestling matches were added later. A modern version of this game is still held every 4 years. 

What is the Olympic Games or Ancient Olympic Games.

400

A network of trade routes which connected the East and West, and was central to the economic, cultural, political, and religious interactions between these regions from the 2nd century BCE to the 18th century.

What is the Silk Road?

400

Holding back the mighty Colorado River, this massive feat of engineering creates hydroelectric power and helps provides water for seven states and a portion of Mexico. 

What is the Hoover Dam?

500

a partiality (particular liking)preventing objective consideration of an issue.

what is a bias?

500

a branch of mathematics concerned with questions of shape, size, relative position of figures, and the properties of space

What is Geometry?

500

This stele is a bilingual text which is inscribed with three versions of a decree issued in Memphis, Egypt. It is written in Ancient Eygptian hieroglyphic and Demotic scripts as well as Ancient Greek which became a key to deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphs. 

What is the Rosetta Stone?

500

This explorer is credited with settling Greenland and being the first European to reach America, up to 500 years before Christopher Columbus. 

Who was Leif Eriksson?

500

Steamboat travel played a large role in the story of America’s growth. This historic ship was built in 1914, and remains the oldest operating steam-powered boat in the United States.

What is The Belle of Louisville?