Vocab
Science Short
History Short
Long Answers
Nonsense
100
What word means "feeling someone else's feelings"
Empathy
100
Divergent evolution is what happens when two species become more similar.
True / False
False - Divergent means to go apart, become different
100
Choose EITHER a page or a squire and describe their duties.
Page - Young child starting around 7 years old. Learn how to take care for horses and armor. They ran messages from the knight to other people. Lots of learning, like school.
Squire - Starting around 14 years old, they continue to learn etiquette, how to talk, fight. They are responsible for the knights horse and armor. They assist the knight personally both on and off the battlefield.
100
Knights and Samurai.
How were they different, and how were they similar?
Both followed a code of honor
Both were warriors
Both had to defend a Lord of Daimyo
Knights had heavy metal plate armor.
Samurai had wood lacquer armor.
Knights had Pages and Squires to train and do stuff for them.
Samurai did poetry, gardening, art, dancing, etc
100
What week did you need to write an essay for homework?
Week 6
200
What word means "bold, strong-willed"
Brazen
200
Selective breeding is where humans choose and breed certain traits.
True / False
True - We selectively breed dogs to make them bigger, smaller, cuter, or fluffy!
200
Where did Vikings come from?
Why was it easy for them to attack England?
The Vikings came from Scandinavia - Norway, Denmark, Sweden....
It was easy to attack because their boats were flat bottomed and could sail up rivers. They attacked monasteries and churches to plunder gold from defenseless monks.
200
Explain ‘Feudalism’. Provide details about how it worked, affected societies and more.
Feudalism was a King that owned all the land.
He gave land to Lords for a promise they'd support him.
Lords gave land to knights for a promise to serve in the army.
Knights gave land to serfs or peasants to work in exchange for protection.
Serfs gave taxes up to Knights etc
300
The soldiers are __________________ the village and stealing all the villagers' gold.
A. Plunder
B. Plundered
C. Plundering
Plundering
300
Choose one animal, and explain how it has adapted to survive climate change.
Examples
Birds have longer and larger beaks to cool their blood in higher temperatures.
Polar bears are hybridizing with grizzly bears to make pizzly bears.
Squids are shrinking in size.
Birds are migrating to different places for food and shelter.
Lizards are evolving shorter limbs to hold trees during hurricanes.
300
What did Tariq Bin Ziyad make his soldiers do when they reached Spain?
Tariq Bin Ziyad made his men burn their boats so they would fight and win, or die. No retreat.
300
Why are people becoming resistant to antibiotics? What can we do to avoid this problem?
To much use of antibiotics creates super-bacteria. Super-bacteria survive the antibiotics and now have all the resources that other bacteria would have used and they can grow and multiply a lot more.
We can stop using so much hand sanitizer and antibiotics to reduce the creation of new super-bacteria.
300
Do animals dream?
Personal answer
400
Doctors always __________________ the benefits of a healthy diet and exercise to their patients.
A. Graze
B. Promote
C. Chortle
Promote
400
Choose one microorganism, and explain how it can be both harmful and helpful.
Bacteria - make us sick and we have it in our body to help digest food. It also helps make KIMCHI!
Viruses - make us sick. Bacteriophages target specific germs and kill them. Dead or weak viruses can be used for vaccines.
400
Why did Eric the Red leave Iceland?
Why did he call his new country 'Greenland’?
Eric was KICKED out of Iceland for murder. He called Greenland green because he wanted to trick people to join him in the icy lands.
400
Explain how natural selection helps animals evolve.
Natural selection is how living things adapt and survive over time. In nature, some animals or plants have traits that help them survive better in their environment, like being faster or better at finding food. These stronger traits get passed down to their babies because the ones with these traits are more likely to survive and have kids. Over many generations, these helpful traits become more common, and creatures can even evolve into new species.
400
If a man named Jean is wearing blue pants, what is the word for a part of his DNA?
Genes
500
The volcano __________________ out lava and ash during the eruption last year.
Spewed
500
Explain how EITHER antibiotics or vaccines work.
Antibiotics -
Bactericides like mold break cell walls and kill bacteria.
Bacteriostatics stop germs for reproducing by destroying DNA in the cell.
Vaccine -
Inject dead or weak viruses into the body to teach the immune system how to fight the real virus.
500
Which Frankish King became a Christian, and why?
Clovis became Christian because he was losing a battle and promised to be Christian if god won the battle for him.
500
Which king was better for the Franks: Charlemagne or Clovis? Why?
Explain your answer with examples and reasons from the book.
Clovis - United Franks, spread Christianity
Charlemagne - Expanded empire, improved education, built roads, civilized people, worked closely with the Pope
500
If you put socks on a snake.... would it slither faster or take a nap?
