The Gold Rush
What year did the Gold Rush start in CA?
1848
Name all the factors of 24.
1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 12, 24
Fill in the blank with the past progressive tense of the work. Be sure to spell both words, too.
Jane ____________________ (bake) a cake when the oven caught fire.
"was baking"
What do you call a change or trait in an organism that makes it suited to survive in its environment? (example: a rabbit's long ears for hearing predators)
Adaptation
Name the 4 regions of California.
Central Valley
Coastal
Desert
Mountain
What were the 3 ways to get to California?
1. Around the Cape Horn
2. Overland
3. Across the Isthmus of Panama
What is 200 x 200?
40,000
What does response mean?
A person's answer to someone
1) What is the name of the "black hole" in the middle of your eye, and 2) what is it responsible for?
1) Pupil
2) It controls how much light comes into the eye.
1) Name the man who owned the saw mill where gold was found and 2) the man who found it on his sawmill.
2) James Marshall
Name 3 methods of searching for gold?
1. panning
2. cradles
3. long Tom
4. hydraulic mining
5. coyote mining
A teacher has 696 answer keys. Timmy steals 1/4 of them. How many does the teacher have left?
522
What is the difference between a prefix and a suffix?
A prefix comes before the root word, and the suffix comes after.
Name 2 types of reusable energy.
Solar energy, wind energy, hydropower, geothermal, biomass
What is the name of the people who lived on ranchos and herded cattle?
Vaqueros
Name two sicknesses some of the people got during the Gold Rush and while traveling to California for the Gold Rush.
1. cholera
2. scurvy
Timmy goes to sleep at 9:30 p.m. and wakes at 6:30 a.m. He eats breakfast for 20 minutes, gets dressed and brushes his teeth which takes 8 minutes, and then walks to school which takes him 15 minutes. How much time has elapsed from when he went to sleep until he arrived at school?
9 hours and 43 minutes
Which is punctuated correctly?
#1. "Help!" screamed John, "I need a nurse."
#2. "Help!" screamed John. "I need a nurse."
#2
What is the name of the nerve that attaches the eyeball to the brain?
Optic nerve
Who are Californios?
Spanish and Mexican people who lived in California before it became a state. (They were Spanish speaking.)
What was the name of the man who bought up all the shovels, picks, and pans, should "Gold" in with a small bottle of gold, and then became very wealthy selling all those supplies to the miners?
Sam Brannan
Write the following improper fraction as a mixed number, then add 4 8/9:
82/9 = ?
14
Which word is not spelled correctly? Also, give the correct spelling.
There is only one cat chasing it's tail.
Name the three main types of rocks.
1. metamorphic
2. igneous
3. sedimentary
1) 21 missions
2) Junipero Serra