World Rivers and Vikings
The Nile River is located on which continent?
Africa
How was Pompeii destroyed?
Mount Vesuvius erupted.
In 1492, Columbus claimed the land he found for the king and queen of what country?
Spain
A force that pulls objects towards Earth's surface
Gravity
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
What term describes a color or pattern that helps an organism survive in its environment?
Camouflage
What were the letters of the Viking alphabet called?
Runes
What did Romans watch at the Circus Maximus?
Chariot Races
Canada is divided into.....
Territories and Provinces
What makes magnets repel each other?
They have the same poles
What are the two items that climate and weather both focus on when determining forecast?
Temperature and Precipitation
What term describes something that helps make an organism better or more likely to succeed?
Advantage
Another name for the Vikings is...
The Norse
The population of Native Americans decreased rapidly because Europeans brought...
Germs and Disease
What were the religious settlements that the Spaniards built in the Southwest called?
Missions
Who builds machines or parts to create or improve ways to make work easier?
An engineer
In weather, the amount of water vapor in the air is called?
Humidity
What term describes a group of a single type of organism living in the same place at the same time?
Population
Daily Double!
When a dam is built, what is the result?
A Reservoir
The land bridge that connected Asia and North America is called...
Beringia
Daily Double!
What were most early European explorers in the Americas looking for?
Riches or a passage to Asia
What happens to objects that experience a pull force?
They move closer to each other
Which climate type is a result of little precipitation?
A desert or tundra
Daily Double!
What is the name of a series of steps that frogs and butterflies go through to change form?
Metamorphosis
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, or Mark Twain, wrote about which people?
River pilots along the Mississippi River
The three sisters were...
Haudenosaunee crops
Why did the Tories, or Loyalists, move to Canada?
They wanted to live under English rule in Canada.
What is a collection of forces that result in a change in the objects motion called?
Unbalanced Forces
Name at least 2 tools used to measure weather and climate.
A wind vane, weather balloon, radiosonde, thermometer, anemometer, or barometer.
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.