Mystery Science
These organisms break down dead matter and recycle nutrients back into the soil.
What are decomposers?
This branch is responsible for interpreting the law and settling disagreements between states and the Federal government.
What is the judicial branch?
Greek soldiers built and hid inside a wooden horse to sneak into and attack a city.
What is the Trojan Horse?
The Great Lakes were created by
What are melting/retreating glaciers?
This person was given the nickname "Moses" because she helped enslaved black people escape slavery in the South to freedom in Canada or Northern States.
Who is "Harriet Tubman"
A substance that tastes sour and can react with metals to produce bubbles of gas?
What is an acid?
The legislative branch is bichameral meaning it is composed of two houses or bodies. What two bodies make up the U.S. Federal legislature?
What is the Senate and the House of Representatives?
This hero completed 12 impossible labors, including slaying the Nemean Lion.
Who is Hercules?
This ancient mountain range spans the Northeast and Southeast, featuring a famous hiking trail that is 2,190 miles long.
What are the Appalachian Mountains
In the 1860s, the U.S. government forced the Navajo people to leave their homeland and walk hundreds of miles to a new location in eastern New Mexico. This tragic event is known by this name.
What is the Long Walk?
This is the process where water molecules lose heat energy and get closer together to change phase.
What is condensation?
The first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution protect the rights of citizens. They are called...
What is the Bill of Rights?
This inquisitive female opened a box unleashing the evils of disease, war, famine, and death upon the world.
Who is Pandora?
This was the largest human-caused natural disaster in the United States, caused by replacing drought-resistant Native plants with fields of wheat.
What is the Dust Bowl?
Henry Ford made building cars faster and cheaper by using this process, where workers specialize and repeatedly complete the same task over and over again. What is this method called?
What is the Assembly Line?
In a food web, all energy originates from ...
What is the sun.
AS _________ ___ _________, the President is also the leader of the Nation's Armed Forces.
What is "Commander in Chief"?
This Titan felt sorry for humans and stole fire for them from the Gods on Mt. Olympus.
Who is Prometheus?
A patch of land that has been forced to become a desert because mountain ranges blocked all plant-growing, rainy weather
What is a rain shadow?
Building dams on rivers in the American West allowed farmers to grow crops on dry land. What is the name of this process that delivers water to dry land?
What is irrigation?
The Earth has different seasons because it is tilted on this imaginary line.
What is the Earth's axis?
Members of the President's _____________, help him/her carry out the laws. These leaders specialize in areas of government including: Finance, Agriculture, Transportation, and Housing.
What is the President's Cabinet?
In this myth, a boy flies too close to the sun with wax wings.
Who is Icurus?
This underground layer of rock and sand holds fresh water and is a major source of drinking water for people in the Southwest, especially in places like Texas and New Mexico.
What is an aquafer?
When people from different cultures move to the United States, they sometimes change their customs, language, or traditions to fit in better with American ways. This process is called what?
What is to assimilate or assimilation?