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Social Studies Vocabulary
Social Studies Review Questions
Science Vocabulary
Science Review Questions
Mystery Questions
100
What is the study of places and people that live in those places?
Geography
100
Which state is Mississippi's northern border?
Tennessee
100
What is a living thing?
organism
100
What do all organisms need to grow and develop?
energy
100
What word do scientist use in place of living things?
organism
200
What is the height of a landform?
elevation
200
Name a non-renewable resource
oil, natural gas
200
What is the stages of development that includes birth, growth, reproduction, and death in a species?
life cycle
200
What source of energy do plants use to make food?
sun
200
Energy in an environment moves through a what?
food chain
300
What are things found in nature that are useful to people?
Natural resource
300
What is the most important crop grown in the Mississippi Delta?
cotton
300
What is the struggle among living things for water, food, or other resources?
competition
300
To help plants grow, what do roots take in from the surrounding soil?
water
300
What is two or more food chains linked together?
food web
400
What is another way of saying farming?
agriculture
400
When people trade without using money, they are_______
barter
400
What is the power organisms need to stay alive?
energy
400
Which gas do plants need in order to make food?
carbon dioxide
400
What did the early Natchez people build that can still be seen in Mississippi today?
mounds
500
What is a formal event where people gather to express important beliefs?
ceremony
500
What are the Choctaw and Chickasaw most important animal that they hunted?
deer
500
What is a diagram that shows the amount of energy available at each level of a food web in an environment?
energy pyramid
500
Through the process of photosynthesis, a plant makes which two products?
water and carbon dioxide
500
Mississippi’s warm climate and rich soil make it a good place for
agriculture