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Map Skills
Government
American History
Science Vocab
Civil War
100
The imaginary lines running parallel to the equator.
What is latitude?
100
The three branches of the US government for checks and balances.
What are the Judicial, Legislative, and the Executive branches?
100
This was the war between the states?
What is the Civil WAr?
100
The state of matter that has indefinite volume or shape. (doesn't have shape)
What is gas?
100
This person was called Moses of the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
200
The longitude line that divides the earth into east and west.
What is the prime meridian?
200
The two houses that make up US the congress.
What are the Senate and the House of Representatives.
200
A protest in 1773 where colonist protest British taxes by dressing up like the Mohawk Indians.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
200
Describes the ability to float in water or air or some other fluid.
What is buoyancy?
200
The announcement in 1863 that slaves were free.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
300
Lakes, mountains, islands, etc are called this.
What is landforms?
300
This branch decides the meaning of the laws and if they are fair.
What is the judicial branch?
300
In 1849 this was the main reason for the westward movement.
What is the Gold Rush?
300
The transfer of pollen from the male to the female parts of a plant.
What is pollination?
300
The 16th President of the United States during the Civil War.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
400
The earth's four major bodies of water.
What are the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, and Arctic oceans?
400
The term used for the power of each of the three branches. (To make sure one doesn't become the most powerful.)
What is Checks and Balances?
400
The agreement the Pilgrims made before landing in New England to make and obey just and equal laws.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
400
A crack or break in the earth's crust.
What is a fault?
400
The bloodiest battle of the Civil War.
What is Battle of Gettysburg?
500
The northern most point on the earth?
What is the North Pole?
500
The supreme law and plan of the national government adopted in 1789?
What is the constitution?
500
The official document that explained why the American Colonies were breaking away form Great Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
500
Found it plant cells, it allows plants to make their own food.
What is Chloroplast?
500
The name of the government formed by the Southern States when they seceded (left) the United States in 1860.
What is the Confederacy?