Scale
Similar Trees
Is or Is Not
Maps
Scaling Down
100

1 inch on a map is 5 miles. If the distance between two points on a map is 3 inches, this is the real world distance between the two points.

What is 15 miles?

100

This is the part of the plant where photosynthesis takes place

What is the leaves?

100

True or False: All circles are similar to one another.

What is TRUE?

100

We live on this continent.

What is North America?

100

The smallest unit of an element that maintains the properties of the element

What is an atom?

200

Mr. Newman built a scale model of a building to 1:16 scale. The length of the real building was 48 feet, this is the length of the scale model.

What is three feet?

200

This, found in soil, helps plants grow

What are nutrients?

200

True or False: All rectangles are similar.

What is FALSE?

200

This continent is south of where we live.

What is South America or Antarctica?

200

A substance that cannot be broken down or separated by chemical or physical means.

What is an element?

300

On 1/6/2015, the exchange rate from US dollars to Euro is $1 to 0.84 Euro. A plane ticket costs 168 Euro, this is the price in US dollars.


What is $200?

300

This is what gives plants their green color. It also helps the plants capture energy from sunlight.

What is chlorophyll?

300

Similar or not? Triangle 1 has sides 5, 7, 8 and Triangle 2 has sides 15, 21, 24.

What is yes? (5/15=7/21=8/24(

300

This tells you the directions on the map.

What is a compass rose?

300

A form of matter that has no definite volume and no definite shape.

What is a gas?

400

On 1/6/2015, the exchange rate from US dollars to Euro is $1 to 0.84 Euro. A meal costs $22, this is the price in Euro.

What is 18.48 Euro?

400

These 3 things are what plants use in order to make food

What are carbon dioxide, water and energy from the sun?

400

The original rectangle has dimensions 6 by 8. The second rectangle 32 by 24.

What is yes? (6/24 = 8/32)

400

This tells what your symbols mean.

What is a map key or legend?

400

A subatomic particle that has a negative charge.

What is an electron?

500

The distance between Seattle and Boston is 3,043 miles. The distance on a map in Mr. Newman's house is 17 inches. This is the scale.

What is 1 inch:179 miles?

500

These are the products of plants

What are oxygen and glucose (sugar)?

500

Triangle 1 has side lengths 6, 10, 14 and Triangle 2 has side lengths 20, 50, 70.

What is NO? (6/20 reduces to 3/10 and 10/50 is equivalent to 2/10 - not 3/10)

500

The job position title for a maker of maps.

What is a cartographer?

500

A substance made up of two or more elements.

What is a compound?