8TH SCIENCE STUDY NOTES FOR MIDTERMS 2018

STUDY THE FOLLOWING ESSAY IDEAS AND VOCABULARY. USE YOUR NOTES THAT WERE GIVEN IN CLASS TO STUDY ON WEDNESDAY!

Describe Terms of position, velocity, and acceleration.  Compare the distance and displacement.

A) Define the two types of reproduction: sexual and asexual. B) State one advantage and one disadvantage that organisms that use each type of reproduction would experience. C) Give an example of an organism that uses each type.

Compare and contrast Mitosis and Meiosis. Be detailed with your explanation. Make sure you focus on:  A. All the stages in Mitosis B. All the stages in Meiosis C. What occurs during each stage of Mitosis and each stage of Meiosis.

Are all human cells capable of mitosis and cell division? How does this affect the body’s ability to repair itself? Support your answer with specific examples.

What are the disadvantages and disadvantages of cloning animals?

In Mitosis, how many times does the cell divide (how many steps)?

What shape is DNA?

What are the names of the nitrogenous bases on DNA?

What is the purpose of mitosis?

How many chromosomes does a sex cell have?

The cells produced via meiosis are called?

How many parents are required for asexual reproduction?

The end of meiosis results in?  

Which of the following is a disadvantage for sexual reproduction?

Know the phases of mitosis and meiosis!

How to calculate average speed and acceleration.

Know the the definitions of velocity; displacement; average speed; acceleration

Know the terms egg, sperm, and zygote

2ND GRADE SCIENCE STUDY NOTES FOR MIDTERMS 2018

STUDY THE FOLLOWING ESSAY IDEAS AND VOCABULARY. USE YOUR NOTES THAT WERE GIVEN IN CLASS TO STUDY ON WEDNESDAY!

When the sun heats the water from oceans and lakes, the water turns into?

What points in the direction the wind comes from?

The weather changes throughout the year and have four?

What is made up of tiny drops of water?

a special gas that you breathe in to your lungs is called?

About how many bones does your body have?

What organ takes in air into your body?

What does the heart do?

The water that evaporates changes to?

What do you use your brain for?

What goes from your brain to all parts of your body?

What holds up your body and give it shape?

Draw a plant showing the 4 different parts of the plant

vocabulary words:  

wind vane                 seasons             gases              temperature      weather

  clouds                   evaporates         water vapor                                

3RD SOCIAL STUDIES STUDY NOTES FOR MIDTERMS 2018

STUDY THE FOLLOWING ESSAY IDEAS AND VOCABULARY.  USE YOUR NOTES THAT WERE GIVEN IN CLASS TO STUDY ALSO.

Draw a globe showing lines of latitude and lines of longitude. Describe what the lines of latitude measure and lines of longitude measure on a map. 

What was apartheid? How do you think apartheid negatively affected all the people of South Africa?

Canada has a diverse culture.  What groups have contributed to Canadian culture? Describe what religions are important in Canada.

Identify the different landforms that make up Mexico.  How does the climate in Mexico affects how and where people live?

Why did early explorers end up in Canada rather than Asia? Identify Canada’s first inhabitants and how they reached North America?

What is a flat area of land without trees 

North America and Asia was connected by a strip of land called?

Trading goods without using money is called

Canada is organized into how many provinces?

A group of provinces and territories joined together

Which French explorer sailed up the St. Lawrence River?

In 1610, this English explorer sailed into a body of water in New York and is named after him

.What is the climate like in Mexico’s desert

regions                 tundra             lowland               coastline                        territory

land bridge                  bartering                 provinces                territories            confederation 

a. lending                            borrowing                      bartering         . trading

Jacques Cartier                 Henry Hudson               Christopher Columbus

 industry                           prime minister           ancestor               bilingual                         . tourist 

 Environment                 Landforms               Natural resources         mountain                plateau

Plain                 geography

4TH GRADE SOCIAL STUDIES STUDY NOTES FOR MIDTERM

STUDY THE FOLLOWING ESSAY IDEAS AND VOCABULARY.  USE YOUR NOTES THAT WERE GIVEN IN CLASS TO STUDY ALSO.


Compare and contrast how Native Americans live today with how they lived in the past. How did they use natural resources?

Create a two-column chart label: Landform and Definition. Name the four (4) landforms of the Ice Age and give the definition of each under the definition column.

How were wigwams and longhouses alike and different? Write a 2 paragraphs explain each dwelling and draw a picture as an example for each type.

When did New York’s Native Americans’ begun to farm and build villages. Who were the two major tribes?

What are Lines on a map that measure distances north or south of the Equator called?

What is another name for lines of latitude?

Lines on a map that measure east and west of the prime meridian.

The practice of making one person work for another without pay or a chance to be free

What is land set aside for Native Americans by the U.S. government.

Latitude                Longitude             Global grid              equator

wampum        Parallels              Meridians                      Degrees 

agriculture            slavery       tolerance              tenant farmer

explorer              explorer        colony                Northwest Passage

patroon        ancestor         sachem     reservation                        

longhouse

5TH GRADE SCIENCE STUDY NOTES FOR MIDTERMS 2018

STUDY THE FOLLOWING ESSAY IDEAS AND VOCABULARY.  USE YOUR NOTES THAT WERE GIVEN IN CLASS TO STUDY ALSO.

What is the difference between a meteor, meteorite, and a meteoroid? Which one is in space?

 How does distance affect the time it takes a planet to orbit the Sun?

You want to make an accurate model of the solar system that will fit in your classroom for a school science project.             a.  Explain why this will be difficult to do.        b.  How will you solve this problem?

Weather affects everything that we do. List three important weather observations that can be measured.

Explain the tools that would be used to measure that observation.

Identify and analyze the functions of organisms within the population of the ecosystem:

Producers; Consumers; Decomposers.

TYPES OF ECOSYSTEM:

Tundra; Rainforest; grassland; tropical rain forest

clouds                        precipitation          fog                  temperature 

cumulus                     cirrus                         stratus              fog

 atmosphere                  troposphere                 temperature                 

weather                air pressure          oxygen and nitrogen 

insolation          thermometer              microscope                   

barometer                      chronometer     weather              light   

solar system            gravity        revolution;   rotation              

What is the Milky Way?                                   What is a moon?

5TH GRADE SOCIAL STUDIES STUDY NOTES FOR MIDTERMS 2018

STUDY THE NOTES GIVEN IN CLASS  AND THE FOLLOWING VOCABULARY WORDS AND ESSAY IDEAS

How were the Catholic Church’s reasons for sending missionaries to the Americas similar to those of the Catholic kings and queens who sent explorers? What was the result of the Counter-Reformation in the Americas?  Give supporting 

 How would you describe the geography and climate of the United States?  Name the different types of landforms and climate.

 Why were trees more important to the Northwest Coast and the Eastern Woodlands than they were to the Plain Indians?

g missionaries to the Americas similar to those of the Catholic kings and queens who sent explorers? What was the result of the Counter-Reformation in the Americas?  Give supporting details 

What part of the Native Americans’ way of life did Spanish missionaries try to change most?

The Spanish came to the New World in search of -

What was the purpose of the Spanish missionaries in the New World?

.Who was the  Italian explorer who made several voyages from Europe to what many people thought was Asia. He determined that he had landed on another continent, which was later called America in his honor.

To help solve problems with early exploration, Prince Henry of Portugal started a school to teach.

What group of Europeans reached North America about 500 years before Columbus?

What does the word technology mean 

Which European nation sponsored Columbus’s expedition across the Atlantic Ocean in 1492?

 What are the three largest countries in North America?

 What was Balboa credited with discovering?

 What is area in which many features are similar.

How is thethe climate in the western United States different than that in the eastern part of the country.

 What linked Asia to North America.

What covered most of the central United States.

What does the word migration mean?

 What is the main reason that early peoples in the Americas began to live in larger, more settled villages?

  In 1492, he sailed west from Spain and thought he had reached Asia but actually reached islands near the Americas, lands that were unknown Europeans

6/7 SOCIAL STUDIES STUDY NOTES FOR MIDTERMS 2018

REVIEW THE FOLLOWING ESSAY IDEAS 

GREAT COMPROMISE
VIRGINIA PLAN
NEW JERSEY PLAN

Compare and Contrast.  In what ways are the Senate and the House of Representatives similar and different? Give specific details

.

 How did the actions of the First Continental Congress reflect the intense debate of the delegates?  You must mention the specific reasons for both sides of the delegates.

 Why do you think retaking Boston was important to the Patriots?  Give at least 2 supporting details.

Colonist had to choose sides when independence was declared.  What was the significance of the Declaration of Independence? What were the three main arguments in the Declaration of Independence? 

The British and the Americans official ended the war by signing the Treaty of Paris in 1783.  What was the Treaty of Paris? What were the terms of the treaty?

VOCABULARY AND NOTES

What best describe the newly independent nation in the 1780s?

Under the articles of Confederation, the greatest amount of power was in the hands of the-

Who was the French nobleman who helped the Patriots fight the British?

What was the nation’s most widespread problems under the Articles of Confederation 

The main objective of the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 

What was the name of the battle in which the Patriots finally defeated the British?

 Virginia Plan                   Great Compromise           New Jersey Plan          Three-fifths Compromise

Whigs              Loyalists                         Royalists                         . Democrats

 Battle of Saratoga                   Battle of New Jersey                    Battle of Yorktown 

                                                  

 Battle of Valley Forge               mercenaries                  Redcoats 

Hessians                          Continental Army

The Declaration of Independence                                        The Second Continental Congress 

The battles at Lexington and Concord occurred               The Battle of Bunker Hill took place

6/7 SCIENCE STUDY NOTES FOR MIDTERMS 2018

Review the following essay ideas

* What happens to your heart rate and breathing rate after you exercise and why? Why is it difficult to breathe after exercising? If you breathe into a paper sack, what would happen to your breathing rate and why?

* How do caffeine and alcohol affect the nervous system? Give examples.

* List the five major functions of the skin.  Draw and label the main parts of the skin.

*  List the five major functions of the skeletal system.

4. Take a brief minute to observe the room in which you are sitting.  Using what you learned about the nervous system, neurons, and stimuli, describe the various stimuli in the room or outside the window.  Is your body having any trouble maintaining homeostasis? If so, why?

VOCABULARY - Review and the study the following vocabulary words with your notes and text.

 Heart                              Large intestine                            Skin                   Brain

The skin                           Dermis                           Epidermis                                 Blubber     

Subcutaneous layer                              Melanin              

Hair                 Nerve endings    

Pores          Joints                              Ligaments                                     

 How many bones does an adult human have?

What are the bones in your spine called

 What’s in the center of a bone?

The functions of the skin    

The parts of the brain

The parts of the Nerve cell or Neuron

                                                 

8th Science - 1/1/18

https://www.planbookedu.com/s/KR8W4

ASSIGNMENT - FRONT ROW

DUE 1/4 - NATURAL SELECTION

6/7th Science and Social Studies - 1/1/18

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ASSIGNMENTS - FRONT ROW

SCIENCE - DUE 1/4 - The Muscular System


SOCIAL STUDIES - DUE 1/5 - The Constitutional Convention

5th Science and Social Studies - 1/1/18

https://www.planbookedu.com/s/6R295

ASSIGNMENTS:

SCIENCE - FRONT ROW

DUE 1/4 - Ecosystems

SOCIAL STUDIES - FRONT ROW

DUE 1/5 - American Expansion and Manifest Destiny

4th Social Studies - 1/1/18

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ASSIGNMENT

DUE 1/4/18 - FRONT ROW

GOODS AND SERVICES

3rd Grade Social Studies - 1/1/18

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HOMEWORK

DUE - 1/4  in Notebook

1. Nelson Mandela - fought against apartheid; was imprisoned from 1964 - 1990 and eventually became first black President of South Africa in 1994

2. Segregation - the separation or isolation of a race, class, or group

3. Cape Town - seaport city and legislative capital of South Africa; first Dutch colony in Africa.

4. veld - open grassland areas in South Africa

5. Cape of Good Hope - a cape at the southern tip of Africa

6. Drakensberg - a mountain range in Southern Africa

7. Swaziland- a country in Southern Africa almost completely surrounded by South Africa

8. Kalahari Desert - a desert that takes up most of Botswana

9. Atlantic Ocean - an ocean on the west side of Africa

10. Indian Ocean - an ocean on the east side of Africa

2nd Grade Science - 1/1/18

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HOMEWORK:

DUE 1/5/18 - Copy the following statements in Notebook

1.  Roots hold the plant into the soil. They take in water and minerals to help the plant stay alive.

2. Stem as the part that carries water from the roots to the other parts of the plant.

3. The flower helps the plant reproduce, making seeds that will grow into new plants.

4. Leaves take in the air and light that a plant needs to live.

WELCOME TO 2018!

HAPPY AND BLESSED NEW YEAR 2018

Welcome to 2018! I would like to thank all my students and their families for the wonderful Christmas gifts I received.  Your thoughtfullness and kindness is greatly appreciated.