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Golden Bk19 1stVa-Wi
Volume 1960 Encyclopedia
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Chemicals produced by white blood cells that kill germs | antibodies |
| contains weakened or killed disease germs | vaccine |
| not vulnerable to a disease | immune |
| made the first vaccine in the late 1700s | Edward Jenner |
| a vacuum | a space with nothing in it |
| to suck liquid from a straw creates a | vacuum |
| Christian priest who married people in secret | Saint Valentine |
| a long and low place between two mountains or hills. | valley |
| valley is the floor and the hillsides or cliffs are the ________ of the valley | walls |
| valleys formed as soil & rock are worn away due to running water. wearing away is called | erosion |
| Some valleys are formed by slow-moving sheets of ice called | glaciers |
| Valley Forge is in the state of | Pennsylvania |
| George Washington & the Continental Army spent the winter of 1777 to 1778 at _________ | Valley Forge |
| German officer who helped George Washington train troops in the winter at Valley Forge | Baron von Steuben |
| Valley Forge is now a historical | park |
| Vincent Van Gogh was a painter born in the | Netherlands |
| to a scientist fruits develop from _______ and contain __________ | flowers seeds |
| The heads of cauliflower & broccoli are _________ parts | flower |
| Carrots, parsnips, radishes, turnips, & sweet potatoes are ______with lots of ________. | roots minerals |
| young plants that recently emerged from seeds | sprouts |
| an island archipelago in the Pacific Islands consisting of approximately 82 relatively small, geologically newer islands of volcanic origin | Republic of Vanuatu |
| archipelago | a group of scattered islands |
| Vatican | the chief residence of the popes in Vatican City |
| we eat tomatoes, squash, cucumbers, peppers, and eggplants as vegetables, but scientifically they are | fruits |
| We eat green peas, lima beans, and corn as vegetables, but scientifically they are | seeds |
| methods of preserving vegetables & other foods include salting, drying, | freezing |
| preserve roots in the cold ground or store in a root cellar which is | an underground room for storing root vegetables |
| brine is | salty water |
| beets,broccoli,brussel sprouts from Europe, were planted and now are also common in | North America |
| fiber helps food go down the | digestive system |
| vein | a blood vessel that carries blood from the capillaries toward the heart |
| Venezuela is | a country in northern South America |
| Venezuela has a mountainous coast along | the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean |
| 34the Orinoco River drains into the ___________ _________ through the huge ______ named _________ ___________. | Atlantic Ocean delta Orinoco Delta |
| Venezuela's large ______ _________ have made it one of the wealthiest nations in _______ __________. | oil deposits South America |
| Most important crop in Venezuela | coffee |
| capital and largest city of Venezuela | Caracas |
| The highest waterfall in the world is _______ in _____________. | Angel Falls Venezuela |
| The second planet out from the sun on our solar system is _______________. | Venus |
| Venus is the only planet with a __________ orbit instead of an ______ shape. | circular oval |
| We always see Venus and _______ near the sun. | Mercury |
| Venus and Earth are similar in _________ and ______, but the surface of Venus is covered by dense clouds of _________ &_______ ________. | size density sulfur sulfuric acid |
| The Diameter of Venus is about 12,000 kilometers (7,500 miles) in _______________. | diameter |
| diameter means | straight line completely through the middle |
| In 1975 a _________ __________ landed on Venus & sent back photos of its surface. | Soviet spaceprobe |
| Surface temperatures on Venus are close to __________ C ____________F | 477 degrees 900 degrees |
| Like the moon, Venus reflects the light of the ________. | sun |
| An _________ for this year will tell us where to look for Venus on any given day. | almanac |
| Bordered on the North by Canada,south by Massachusetts,east by New Hampshire & west by New York | Vermont |
| Vermont is one of the __________ ________ states. | New England |
| In 1609, the French explorer ____________ visited what is now Vermont. | Samuel de Champlain |
| A French settlement and fort were built on an island in _______ ___________ in 1666. | Lake Champlain |
| At the end,1763, of the French and Indian War _____________ won control of the area. | England |
| The __________,led by Ethan Allen, captured Fort Ticonderga from the British in 1775. | Green Mountain Boys |
| In 1777, Vermont became a republic and the 1st to ban _______. All adult males could vote. | slavery |
| In 1791, Vermont became the __________ state of the United States. | 14th |
| Until after the Civil War, _________ was the leading economic activity in Vermont. | agriculture |
| As of 1960, list Vermont's 7 major manufactured products. | machine tools, computer parts, paper, lumber, furniture, stone, and clay items. |
| What are the only two states that have fewer people than Vermont? | Alaska and Wyoming |
| Vermont is the most _______ state in the USA. Only a ____of its people live in cities. | 3rd |
| Vermont's largest city is _____, located on Lake Champlain. | Burlington |
| The state capital of Vermont is ____, a granite-quarrying region. | Montpelier |
| A French author who was one of the first writers of science fiction, born in 1828, was | Jules Verne |
| Jules Verne described ______ and _______ before they ever existed. | airplanes spaceships |
| Jules Verne wrote Twenty Thousand Leages Under the ____, Around the World in ____ Days, and Voyage to the Center of the ______. | Sea Eighty Earth |
| _________ _______ was a _____. North and South America are named after him. | Amerigo Vespucci navigator, |
| North and South America were named after him, and he was born in _____, ___, in 1454. | Florence Italy |
| Amerigo Vespucci made a close estimate of the _______ around the equator. | distance |
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