Vocabulary 1.0
Costing a lot of money
Expensive
laughed softly
chuckled
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Bear
Fill in the blank.
Molly Whuppie, Hercules, and the Tailor, had to overcome many ________ to get what they wanted.
*Hint: it's a vocabulary word we've had
Obstacles
What new affordable car led to the need for better roads?
Model T
A thing that blocks one's way or prevents progress.
Obstacle
Occurring once a year
Annual
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Clockwise
Molly Whuppie is a young girl who outsmarts and tricks the Giant. What does that make her?
*Hint: it's a vocabulary word we've had
A trickster
What are fossil fuels? Are they renewable or non-renewable?
Fossil fuels are coal, oil, and natural gas. They are non-renewable.
People who move from one country to live in another.
Immigrants
A car that uses more than one type of fuel
Hybrid car
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Frowned
The tailor showed his "strength" by squeezing a rock, which was really a cube of cheese in his hands. He threw a rock that would 'never come back' but it was a bird that he threw.
What were the effects of the Dust Bowl?
Answers:
- Houses were destroyed and buried.
- Farms were destroyed.
- Refugees had to leave their home and relocate.
Crossing a continent
Transcontinental
To have the necessary things to survive; basic needs
Livelihood
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Intersect
In the story Rabbit and Coyote, explain how the rabbit tricked the coyote.
The rabbit told the coyote to hold up the sky because it was going to fall. The rabbit ran away and did not come back. The coyote eventually got tired of holding the rock and left but fell in a ravine.
Earlier this year, we talked about different ways we can "be green" and reduce fossil fuel emissions during transportation. What was one of the ways we could reduce fossil fuel emissions?
Possible Answers:
- Running/Walking/Biking to places
- Taking public transportation (buses/trains)
- Green cars like solar cars
- Cars that use 'green fuel' like ethanol or biodiesel.
The long-term changes in global temperatures and other characteristics of the atmosphere.
Climate Change
A process that creates growth, progress, positive change, or the addition of physical, economic, environmental components.
Development
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Superintendent
Even though she is feeble, the old lady still walks a mile every day
What is the meaning of feeble?
A. to be hungry
B. without strength or weak
B. without strength or weak
Name 3 ways the transcontinental railroad changed the nation.
Answers Could Be:
- Travel was much more affordable.
- Travel was shorter, the journey took less time.
- It united the nation by linking the East and West.
- The railroad forced Native Americans off their homeland into reservations.
- It brought more people to the West and to various unpopulated areas.