| A | B |
|---|
| frequency | the number of waves you see |
| amplitude | the height of waves |
| vibrations | how sound travels |
| tension | the tighter something is the higher the pitch |
| size | bigger objects have lower sounds |
| frequency | shows whether something has a high or low pitch |
| amplitude | the higher the wave the louder the sound |
| soft objects | don't let sound travel through them well |
| metal objects | usually have higher sounds |
| dividend | the biggest number in a division problem |
| divisor | the number you are dividing by |
| quotient | answer to a division problem |
| sum | answer to an addition problem |
| each | tells you to multiply or divide |
| equal | tells you to divide |
| total | tells you to add |
| left | tells you to subtract |
| noun | things you can touch |
| verbs | usually things you can do |
| adjectives | can be touched if connected to a noun; married to a noun |
| adverb | has to be connected to a verb; usually answers the question "how" |
| sound | bounces off objects like a ball |
| Balboa | looked for Gold, discovered Panama, and Pacific Ocean |
| Hudson | explored Canada looking for Northwest Passage; crew mutinied |
| Conquistadors | Spanish explorers that conquerored the native americans instead of bartering with them |
| Ponce de Leon | Conquistador that explored Florida looking for Fountain Youth |
| Cabot | Discovered Newfoundland and looked for Northwest Passage |
| Cartier | Explored Canada and St. Lawrence River; looked for Northwest Passage |
| Northwest Passage | an all water route across North America connecting the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean |
| spices | reason explorers want to go to the Far East |
| winds | Why explorers didn't take a direct route from Europe to North America |
| cornea | outer layer of the eye that holds everything in place |
| pupil | black part of the eye that catches the light |
| iris | gets bigger and smaller; the colored part around the eye |
| retina | contains the rods and cones; responsible for getting the message from the lens |
| rods | black and white |
| cones | colors |
| lens | responsible for bending light and focusing it towards the retina |
| optical nerve | gathers messages from retina and sends them to the brain |
| image received by retina | upside down |
| brain | interprets messages |
| inuit | indians that lived in Alaska and built igloos; also known as Eskimos |
| Grand Canyon | Created by the Colorado River |
| Gulf of Mexico | Warm water region located between Florida and Texas |
| Great Plains | flat farm land area between the Appalachian and Rocky Mountains |
| Anasazi Indians | lives in the desert and built puebloes and adobes |
| nomadic indians | moved from place to place following herds of food like buffalo |
| translucent | light goes through it but objects can't be seen clearly like looking through water |
| transparent | see clearly through it and can read words like with glass |
| opaque | light can't pass through it |
| refraction | light is bent as it goes through objects like water causing different colors of the rainbow to appear |
| reflection | light doesn't go through the object; it bounces back like a ball |
| colors | the colors that we see are the colors that are reflected back at our eyes; if you see red than that is the color that bounces of the shirt back into our eyes |
| Appalachian Mountains | mountains that travel up the eastern coast from GEorgia to Maine |
| difference | answer to a subtraction problem |
| sum | answer to an addition problem |
| product | answer to a multiplication problem |
| quotient | answer to a division problem |
| range | biggest minus the smallest |
| 3 colonial regions | southern, middle, new england |
| physical map | map that shows mountains, rivers, lakes, grasslands, BUT NO NAMES OF CITIES AND STATES |
| simile | comparison using LIKE OR AS |
| metaphor | comparison without using LIKE OR AS |
| onomatopoeia | writing sounds as words Ow!!! |
| idioms | words or phrases that don't mean what they say; don't let the cat out of the bag or I will give you a penny for your thoughts |
| Puritans | believed everyone was dirty and needed to purified; strict believers in the bible |
| Massachusetts Bay Colony | started by the Puritans who wanted RELIGIOUS FREEDOM |
| straight angle | 180 degrees or half circle |
| right angle | 90 degrees or an L |
| acute angle | less than 90 degrees or a Pacman |
| obtuse angle | more than 90 degrees |
| cube | has six faces |
| edges | the lines that you bend on a net are the edges |
| line segment | a line with a point at both ends |
| parallel lines | two lines that never meet |
| intersecting lines | lines that cross |
| prism | a 3D image with the same shape on either end |
| right triangle | has a right angle |
| acute triangle | all angles are acute |
| triangle | always equals 180 degrees |
| obtuse triangle | has an obtuse angle |
| antagonist | the bad guy or things in a story |
| protagonist | the good guy in a story |
| plot | the problem in a story |
| sensory imagery | using your senses (eyes, ears, mouth, hands, nose) to describe things |
| prefixes | things you add to the front of a word; Examples are pre-, re-, un-, non- |
| suffixes | things you add to the end of a word; Examples include -less, -ful, -tion, -ism |
| syllables | every syllable has a vowel in it |
| syllables | usually spit double consonants into two syllables; Example swim/ming |
| 1st law of motion | things want to stay the way they are; If they are at rest they want to stay at rest if they are in motion they want to stay in motion in a straight line |
| 2nd law of motion | the bigger it is the more force it takes to move it |
| 3rd law of motion | action and reaction; For every force in one direction their is a force in the opposite direction |
| gravity | the force that pulls all things towards the Earth; remember that two things of different sizes will still land at the same time (chair and book) |
| friction | a reaction against all things that are moving; rubbing against the ground or air when moving |
| balanced forces | when things are in balance there isn't any motion |
| unbalanced forces | when things are out of balance there is motion |
| simple machines | make our jobs easier by allowing us to do something that would be much harder without their help |
| pulley | a rope, chain, or string that is wrapped around a round object and pulled on;examples include a bucket on a well, a flag pole, an elevator |
| lever | has some type of rod that is connected to a fulcrum that everything else moves on; examples include wheelbarrel, seesaw, hammer; remember that it has a handle |
| wedge | sharp or pointed end that all the force travels through; examples include nail, knife, scissor edges |
| incline plane | a ramp that spreads the work out that you have to do over a greater distance; examples include stairs |
| wheel and axle | a round object that spins on a center rod or line; examples include a screw driver, a bicycle wheel, a manual pencil sharpener (old fashion one that you have to turn yourself) |
| gears | have teeth that fit together causing each gear to move; examples include conveyor belt, pencil sharpener, gears on a bike |
| Lost Colony | colony at Roanoak Island that disappeared when the rest of the group went back to England for more supplies |
| 1st Jamestown | Failed because colonist built on marshy land and spent all of their time looking for gold instead of farming and hunting |
| bay or harbors | most colonies that became cities were built on or near bays or harbors so ships from England could bring them supplies |
| Puritans | left England looking for religious freedom; believed all people were dirty and needed to be purified by the bible |
| Jamestown Colonies | were started to make money for the Virginia Company |
| Plymouth Colony | started by the Pilgrims who wanted religious freedom |
| religious freedom | the ability to choose what religion you believed in and practised; in England the king told you what God you believed in |
| cash crop | a crop that you grew because you knew that there was a high DEMAND for it in England or Europe |
| artifacts | the tools, weapons, artwork, etc. of a group of people; these are things from past civilizations |
| rectangle | two sets of parallel lines plus four right angles |
| triangle | three line segments and three angles that always equal up to 180 degrees |
| square | 2 sets of parallel lines; a quadriteral with four equal sides |
| quadrilateral | four sided object |
| square pyramid | five faces, a square bottom, and triangles on four sides |
| vertice | the point in the angle connecting two lines together |
| face | flat surfaces of a 3D object |
| edges | all of the line segment in a 3D object |
| inference | an invisible fact that you know is true but is never mentioned in the story |
