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S.S./Science-9 WKS

S.S./Science

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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
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