Social Studies Review Answers

You need to be able to answer these questions:

Over civilizations...
1. What is a civilization?
A civilization is a number of communities working together in a common society to try to improve their lives.
2. What does a civilization need?
A common language, shared economy, shared currency, common government and laws, progress, and AGRICULTURE
3. What evidence to we have of the Cro Magnon people?
paintings in caves in France
4. What were the first four ancient civilizations we know about?
Mesopotamia (the Sumerians), Egyptians, Indus River Valley, and Yellow River Valley
5. What was the same about all of the first four civilizations?
They were built near rivers.

Questions about Mesopotamia...
1. What was the civilization in Mesopotamia called?
Sumer
2. What are some things the people in Mesopotamia invented?
the wheel, writing, time, multiplication tables
3. What rivers ran through Mesopotamia?
the Tigris River and the Euphrates River

Questions about Egypt
1. What river ran through Egypt?
the Nile River
2. Who ruled Egypt?
pharaohs
3. How did Egyptians write?
in hieroglyphics

Questions about the Indus River Valley
1. What country is the Indus River in now?
India
2. What did the Indus River Valley civilization invent?
Zero (0)
3. The Indus River Valley had more of one thing than any other civilization. What was it? cities

Questions about the Yellow River Valley
1. What country is the Yellow River in now?
China
2. How did people in the Yellow River Valley write?
in characters
3. Who ruled the Yellow River Valley?
emperors of family dynasties

The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
1. What is the only original seven wonder of the world that still exists?
The Great Pyramid of Giza
2. Why weren't any of the original seven wonders of the world in China or South America?
Because the author didn't know about those places.

Ancient Greece
1. Where was ancient Greece?
In present day Greece, and along the coast of the Mediterranean
2. What kind of government did Greece have?
Democracy
3. What are some types of art that Greece had?
architecture, sculpture, music, writing, theater
4. What special sporting event did Greece have?
The Olympics
5. What was the most important city in Greece?
Athens

Ancient Rome
1. What kind of government did Rome have?
Republic
2. Where was the Roman Empire?
It was based in Italy, but it spread throughout Europe and the Mediterranean coast
3. Why did the Roman Empire end?
It was too big and it fell apart because the Romans couldn't control everything
4. What is one famous thing the Romans built?
Aqueducts, fountains, the Coliseum, the Pantheon, the Roman Forum
5. What was the most important city in Rome?
Rome!

The Middle Ages
1. What was the most important part of life in the Middle Ages?
Religion
2. What kind of government did countries have in the Middle Ages?
Monarchies
3. What kind of economy did people have in the Middle Ages?
Feudalism
4. What killed almost half the people in Europe during the Middle Ages?
The Black Death (Bubonic Plague)

Religion
1. What is monotheism?
A religion with only 1 god
2. What is polytheism?
A religion with more than 1 god
3. What did the religions of Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, and Rome share? (What was the same?)
They were polytheistic (Except for Egypt, which was monotheistic for a little while)
4. Which two religions in the Middle Ages were monotheistic?
Islam and Christianity
5. Why were the gods in Egypt kind, but the gods of Mesopotamia were mean?
Because in Egypt the Nile flooded at the same time every year, and the Egyptians could plan their lives around the flooding. In Mesopotamia, the rivers would flood at strange times and only some years, so they couldn't predict when the rivers would flood. Their farms could be ruined and they might not have food, so they thought the gods were punishing them.

Social Studies Quiz Review

You need to be able to answer these questions:

Over civilizations...
1. What is a civilization?
2. What does a civilization need?
3. What evidence to we have of the Cro Magnon people?
4. What were the first four ancient civilizations we know about?
5. What was the same about all of the first four civilizations?

Questions about Mesopotamia...
1. What was the civilization in Mesopotamia called?
2. What are some things the people in Mesopotamia invented?
3. What rivers ran through Mesopotamia?

Questions about Egypt
1. What river ran through Egypt?
2. Who ruled Egypt?
3. How did Egyptians write?

Questions about the Indus River Valley
1. What country is the Indus River in now?
2. What did the Indus River Valley civilization invent?
3. The Indus River Valley had more of one thing than any other civilization. What was it?

Questions about the Yellow River Valley
1. What country is the Yellow River in now?
2. How did people in the Yellow River Valley write?
3. Who ruled the Yellow River Valley?

The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
1. What is the only original seven wonder of the world that still exists?
2. Why weren't any of the original seven wonders of the world in China or South America?

Ancient Greece
1. Where was ancient Greece?
2. What kind of government did Greece have?
3. What are some types of art that Greece had?
4. What special sporting event did Greece have?
5. What was the most important city in Greece?

Ancient Rome
1. What kind of government did Rome have?
2. Where was the Roman Empire?
3. Why did the Roman Empire end?
4. What is one famous thing the Romans built?
5. What was the most important city in Rome?

The Middle Ages
1. What was the most important part of life in the Middle Ages?
2. What kind of government did countries have in the Middle Ages?
3. What kind of economy did people have in the Middle Ages?
4. What killed almost half the people in Europe during the Middle Ages?

Religion
1. What is monotheism?
2. What is polytheism?
3. What did the religions of Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, and Rome share? (What was the same?)
4. Which two religions in the Middle Ages were monotheistic?
5. Why were the gods in Egypt kind, but the gods of Mesopotamia were mean?

You need to be able to label the First Four Civilizations on a map. See if you can do it here:


You need to make a timeline of the historical periods we have learned about.


That's all. Good luck!

Answers to Cell Review

Please look above... you need to know everything except lysosomes.

1. A cell is the building block of life. Cells are the smallest unit of life. Some animals and plants can be uni-cellular--made of only one cell. Other cells that make bigger plants and animals (like us), attach to each other and build animals or plants by joining each other.

2. The two types of cells are plant cells and animal cells.

3. See the picture above so you know what parts to label. You need to label a plant cell. You should know these parts: cell wall, cell membrane, vacuole, ribosome, nucleus, nucleolus, chloroplasts, endoplasmic recticulum, golgi apparatus, cytoplasm, and mitochondria.

4. Here are what the parts do:
Cell wall: Protects the cell and gives the cell and plant structure
vacuole: Stores water and helps give the cell shape
nucleus and nucleolus: Holds DNA information and directs and manages the cell. (It tells the cell what to do.)
chloroplasts: where photosynthesis occurs
ribosomes: hold protein in the cell
mitochondria: supplies energy for the cell

Quiz over Cells, TOMORROW!!!

You need to know...

1. What is a cell?

2. What are the two main types of cells?

3. You need to label a plant cell. You should know these parts: cell wall, cell membrane, vacuole, ribosome, nucleus, nucleolus, chloroplasts, endoplasmic recticulum, golgi apparatus, cytoplasm, and mitochondria.

4. You should know what the cell wall, vacuole, nucleus and nucleolus, chloroplasts, ribosomes, and mitochondria do.

(I will post the answers to these questions at 7:00 p.m.)

Science Quiz and Math Quiz Tomorrow!

Hi Class! Don't forget, you have a science quiz and a math quiz tomorrow. You also have an oral interview exam. For homework this weekend, you had math problems AND you also need to read at LEAST 4 stories on RazKids for your reading plan! Don't forget! Your reading comprehension exam is on Wednesday, so if you read lots of stories on RazKids it will help you study!

For your science quiz, make sure you know these things:
1. The definition of light.
2. Make sure you can draw the electromagnetic spectrum.
3. You should know about the different kinds of waves... radio waves, microwaves, infrared waves, visible light, UV-rays, and x-rays. Make sure you know that radio waves are the biggest and x-rays are the smallest! (Which means that x-rays have MORE energy than radio waves!!)
4. You also need to know properties of light *like, we can feel it, it travels really fast, stuff like that.)
5. You need to know the differences between a laser and a regular light bulb.
6. You need to know the differences between opaque, translucent, and transparent. You also need to know what refraction and reflection are.
7. You need to be able to draw a picture of a concave lens and a convex lens.

For your math quiz, you need to be able to do these problems:
1. Write a numerical expression for this problem: "Mr. Carson divides 28 chairs into 4 equal rows."
2. Write an algebraic expression for this problem: "At a bus stop, 8 of the 33 people on the buss got off the bus and OTHER people got on."
3. Solve: 45 - 7 + 5
4. Solve: (6+3) x 3
5. Solve: 4 + n x 8 (if n=5)
6. Solve: 8 + 2t (if t = 9)
7. Solve to find n: 5 x (8 + 3) = (5 x 8) + (5 x n)
8. Solve to find f: f - 8 = 17
9. Solve to find p: 5 + p = 16
10. Look at Sets G and H on page 121 in your math book. I might put a problem from Set G on the quiz!

*Hint: I am going to put up the answers to these problems at 7 p.m. tonight!

For your Oral Interview, you will need to answer questions LIKE these...
1. Describe your favorite food.
2. Tell me about your favorite television show.
3. What is something you would like to change in 5th grade? Explain.
4. What is something you learned about in science this term? How could you use that information in the future?
5. Compare Bogota and Medellin. Which city is better? Why? (Or Cali and Pereira...)
6. Imagine you won one a free trip to anywhere in the world. Where would you go?
7. Your family wants to buy a new car. What kind of car should they buy? Why would that be a good choice?
8. Is it better to have a lot of money, but have to work all the time, or is it better to be poor but to have lots of time to spend with your family? Why?

FOR EXTRA CREDIT: If you leave a comment on this post (click on the part where it says "Questions? Comments?"), I will give you 5 points of extra credit on your science quiz tomorrow!