VOCABULARY
A person who is forced to work for no money and can’t leave:
slave
Explain Jan Baptiste van Helmont’s experiment with soil and a plant. What did he learn?
He learned that trees don’t use soil as food, and instead use water as food. He planted a tree in soil and weighed it 5 years later. The tree was heavier but the soil was the same.
A _________________adverb tells us how often something happens.
frequency
______________ adverbs are different as they don’t end in ‘ly’.
. ___Irregular_
Why did Alexander Calder’s parents want him to study engineering, not art?
His parents did not want him to have a hard life as an artist
Can make lots of money from it:
profitable__
Why didn’t farmers listen to George Washington Carver? What did he do to change their opinion?
Farmers did not listen because cotton made more money than other crops. He changed their opinions by turning other crops more profitable by using them in new products.
A manner adverb tells us ___ things are done.
how__
Most things we say are in the ______ voice
active_
What kind of wind blew in from 1) the South, 2) the West and 3) the North?
The south brought hot, moist winds, the west brought strong rainstorms, and the north brought a freezing blast of snow and ice
To become ill and die because you cannot get food:
starve_
Explain two things Selina Juul did to stop Denmark from wasting so much food.
Selina Juul posted tips on the internet, suggested taking pictures of the inside of the refrigerator before buying groceries, eating more UFO’s and had big supermarkets stop offering discounts on large quantities of food.
The adverb that answers “when” is an adverb of __________.
_time
The passive voice means the _____ comes before the verb and the _____ comes last.
_subject_object__
Explain the 6 steps in the Case of Borneo. Start with the use of DDT, and end with the cats that were brought from other areas. Write at least 5 sentences.
First, Borneo used DDT to kill all of the mosquitoes. However, this affected other bugs like cockroaches, which were then eaten by lizards. The DDT became more concentrated in the lizards’ bodies, which were eaten by the cats on the island. The cats DDT levels were so high that they started to die, which caused the population of rats to increase. The rats carried deadly diseases like the plague, which had to be stopped by importing new cats from other areas to deal with the rat situation.
To make it smaller or less:
reduce
Tertiary consumer
__eagle__
Adverbs of ________ describe the amount or strength of something.
degree
However, in the passive voice, the order is ____ + _____ + ____.
_O___ + __V___ + __S___.
What is renewable energy? What are 3 sources of renewable energy?
Renewable energy is energy that comes from resources we do not run out of. For example, solar, tidal, geothermal, and wind energy are renewable
Animals that hunt, catch, kill and eat other animals:
_predator
Producer
_grass
Adverbs of _______ tell us where something happened.
place_____
When we use passive, we are not focusing on the _______. We are focusing on the ________.
subject__object_
Why are offshore windfarms more successful than windfarms that are on land?
Offshore windfarms are more successful because ocean winds are strong and steady