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S.S./Science-9 WKS
S.S./Science
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is a method used to identified, gathered information, and later test an experiment to see how it develops? | Scientific Method |
| What is the 1st part of the Scientific Method? | Identify the problem |
| What is the 2nd part of the Scientific Method? | Making a hypothesis |
| What is the 3rd part of the Scientific Method? | Plan Investigation |
| What is the 4th part of the Scientific Method? | Collect and Organize Data |
| What is the 5th part of the Scientific Method? | Explain Result |
| What is the 6th part of the Scientific Method? | Share Methods |
| What are lines that run from right to left or left to right on a map? | latitude lines |
| What is the imaginary line the divides the Northern and Southern Hemispheres? | equator |
| What is the imaginary line that divides the Western and Eastern Hemispheres? | Prime Meridian |
| What latitude line is located at 23.5 degrees North Latitude? | Tropic of Cancer |
| What latitude line is located at 23.5 degrees South Latitude? | Tropic of Capricorn |
| What latitude line is located at 66.5 degrees North Latitude? | Arctic Circle |
| What latitude line is located at 66.5 degrees South Latitude? | Antarctic Circle |
| What zone is located at 23.5 degrees North Latitude and 23.5 degrees South Latitude? | tropical zone |
| What zone is located at 23.5 degrees North Latitude and 66.5 degrees North Latitude? | temperate zone |
| What zone is located at 66.5 degrees North Latitude and 90 degrees North Latitude? | frigid zone |
| What map show cities, states, and countries using different types of colors that represent them? | political map |
| What map show land forms, bodies of waters, and elevations of different places? | physical map |
| Sometimes known as a "Legend", it show the map symbols in a map? | key |
| What in a map, shows the distance between areas? | scale |
| What is use as a pointer that show the north, south, west, or east location in a map? | compass rose |
| What is another name for the frigid zone? | Polar Zone or Polar Region |
| What is the definition for a living form of life composed of various vital processes? | Organism |
| What is plant cell process called when energy is transferred to live and grow? | Photosynthesis |
| What is the transfer of pollen from the plant’s stamen to the ovary of the plant called? | Pollination |
| Insects go through what life cycle that starts when they are young and they develop into adults? | Metamorphosis |
| What are animals with a backbone and lives in water when they are young and on land when they are adults? (Frog are an example) | Amphibians |
| What are the “children” that are reproduced from parents called? | Offspring |
| Animals survive by experience and knowledge what they learn, what body structures that help animals learn and react? | Sense Organs |
| What is it called when animals have to spend the winter in a dormant condition, as bears and other animals do? | Hibernation |
| What is the process of animals when they move from one place to another due to temperature or instinct? | Migration |
| Where did the first Vikings came from? | Norway, Sweden, and Denmark |
| What trade route on land was developed by Europe and Asia? | Silk Road |
| What prince was responsible for building a school for sea navigation and donated money to explore Africa for riches and gold? | Prince Henry of Portugal |
| What were the new ships that were build for far travel called by the Portuguese? | Caravel ships |
| What was the name of the 1st explorer for Portugal that sailed to the tip of South Africa, Cape of Good Hope? | Bartolomeu Dias |
| Why did Bartolomeu Dias turned by from his trip to India from Portugal? | The supplies to his ship were low and his crew was going to mutiny if he didn't turn back to Portugal |
| Who was the 2nd person that sailed from Portugal to India and made the trip twice, which made him rich and famous? | Vasco da Gama |
| What were the names of the 3 ships that Columbus used in his trip to the "New World"? | La Nina, La Pinta, and The Santa Maria |
| What were the 3 G's that Spanish explorers looked for in the New World? | GOD-Spread Catholic, GOLD-Money, GLORY-Land for Spain |
| What were Spanish soldiers called that explored in the New World? | Conquistadors |
| By 1519, what conquistador captured the Aztec Chief and the Empire of the Aztecs, in Central America? | Hernan Cortes |
| Who was a Portuguese sailor that sailed around South America east coast line, but was killed in the Island of the Philippians? | Ferdinand Magellan |
| Who was the person that took that last remaining ship back to Spain to complete the circumnavigation from Spain? | El Cano |
| What were the 3 native tribes that the conquistadors defeated in South and Central America? | Incas, Mayas, and Aztecs |
| What was the epidemic that killed off most of the Natives Americas in South, Central, and North America? | Small Poxes |
| What is known in human history, the period before written records were ever made? | Prehistory |
| What are specialist that studies prehistoric cultures by analyzing their artifacts or remains? | Archaeologists |
| What is any object made by human beings from ancient times? | Artifact |
| What is any remains or traces of a living thing from a former age? | Fossil |
| What does it means for a living things to get use to the weather and climates of an area? | Adapt |
| What were composed of at least 25 to 50 people that worked together as a group in ancient times? | Clans |
| What is the practice of bringing water to fields, usually by ditches and channels? | Irrigation |
| What is a complex creation of cultures that created systems of governments, religion, economy, and ways of living within a society? | Civilization |
| In a civilization, what is a system of growing crops for food known as? | Agriculture |
| What is a system by which a group makes, uses, shares, trades goods, and services to each other and others? | Economy |