World Rivers and Vikings
The Nile River is located on which continent?
Africa
A force that pulls objects towards Earth's surface
Gravity
How was Pompeii destroyed?
Mount Vesuvius erupted.
A destructive, rotating column of air that has very high wind speeds, is visible as a funnel-shaped cloud, and touches the ground is called?
A Tornado
In 1492, Columbus claimed the land he found for the king and queen of what country?
Spain
What term describes a color or pattern that helps an organism survive in its environment?
Camouflage
What is New Amsterdam called today?
New York City
Lightning starts a fire that destroys a forest is an example of human-made or natural change?
Natural Change
What were the letters of the Viking alphabet called?
Runes
What makes magnets repel each other?
They have the same poles
What did Romans watch at the Circus Maximus?
Chariot Races
What are the two items that climate and weather both focus on when determining forecast?
Temperature and Precipitation
Canada is divided into.....
Territories and Provinces
What term describes something that helps make an organism better or more likely to succeed?
Advantage
What were colonial South Carolina’s biggest cash crops?
Rice and Indigo
Where would an animal with long and hard claws live?
Underground
Another name for the Vikings is...
The Norse
Who builds machines or parts to create or improve ways to make work easier?
An engineer
The population of Native Americans decreased rapidly because Europeans brought...
Germs and Disease
In weather, the amount of water vapor in the air is called?
Humidity
What were the religious settlements that the Spaniards built in the Southwest called?
Missions
What term describes a group of a single type of organism living in the same place at the same time?
Population
The Middle Colonies were nicknamed the....
Breadbasket Colonies
Why do elephants live in groups?
To care for their young
Daily Double!
When a dam is built, what is the result?
A Reservoir
What happens to objects that experience a pull force?
They move closer to each other
The land bridge that connected Asia and North America is called...
Beringia
Which climate type is a result of little precipitation?
A desert or tundra
Daily Double!
What were most early European explorers in the Americas looking for?
Riches or a passage to Asia
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What is the name of a series of steps that frogs and butterflies go through to change form?
Metamorphosis
What was the name of the contract written by the Pilgrims?
Mayflower Compact
What is the difference between a tundra and a desert?
A tundra is cold and a desert is hot.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, or Mark Twain, wrote about which people?
River pilots along the Mississippi River
What is a collection of forces that result in a change in the objects motion called?
Unbalanced Forces
The three sisters were...
Haudenosaunee crops
Name at least 2 tools used to measure weather and climate.
A wind vane, weather balloon, radiosonde, thermometer, anemometer, or barometer.
Why did the Tories, or Loyalists, move to Canada?
They wanted to live under English rule in Canada.
What is the difference between an ecosystem and an environment?
An ecosystem is all the living things and nonliving things in the same place. An environment is only the area where something lives.
Roger Williams believed that religion should be...
Separate from government
How are a tundra and a desert similar?
They are both very dry places.