Esperanza Rising
Who is the main character in Esperanza Rising?
Who is Esperanza?
What is biodiversity?
What is the variety of plants and animals in an environment?
The amount of space an object takes up is called this.
What is volume?
This slow constructive process builds up landforms by dropping sediment in new places.
What is deposition?
Louis Armstrong rose to fame in the 1920s for helping popularize this style of music.
What is jazz?
Which character teaches Esperanza how to sweep and perform chores at the camp?
Who is Isabel?
What is the layer of the rainforest where most animals live?
What is the canopy?
What is the formula for volume?
What is a length x width x height or Base x height?
Sharks, salmon, and goldfish all belong to which vertebrate class?
What are fish?
This is the age to which the 26th Amendment lowered the voting age for Americans.
What is 18?
Who loses his job because he protests unfair treatment of Mexican workers?
Who is Miguel?
What is one effect scientists have discovered about studying rainforest climates?
What is learning how rainforests impact Earth’s climate?
To add fractions with the same denominator, you do this to the numerators.
What is add them?
These small green structures in plant cells capture sunlight to make food through photosynthesis.
What are chloroplasts?
This treaty listed the punishments placed on Germany after World War I.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
Which character becomes seriously ill with Valley Fever?
Who is Mama (Ramona)?
What is one reason scientists study rainforests?
What is to learn about plants, animals, climate, or ecosystems?
To put fractions in order from least to greatest, you often first need to find this for the fractions.
What is a common denominator?
This constructive force occurs when molten rock cools and hardens, creating new land such as islands.
What is volcanic activity?
This East Coast processing center welcomed millions of European immigrants at the turn of the 20th century.
What is Ellis Island?
What does UDHR stand for?
What is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
When scientists discover a new species and publish their findings, what text structure is usually used?
What is description or cause/effect?
Arrange these fractions from greatest to least:
1/2, 3/8, ⅝
What is
5/8, 1/2, ⅜?
This jelly-like substance inside the cell holds all the organelles in place.
What is cytoplasm?
The U.S. Constitution is often called a “living document” for this reason.
What is because it can be changed as the nation changes?