| A | B |
|---|
| Inuits | Eskimo - live in igloos and very cold climate |
| Pawnee | Lived in the Great Plains and followed the herds of buffalo |
| Nomadic | moved from place to place and had dwellings that were similar to tents or teepees |
| Hopi and Anasazi | LIve in the southwest dessert region and made houses from dried mud; adobes or pueblos |
| Seminole | Indians of southeast like Florida; open airy huts because of warm climate |
| Kwakiutl | northwest indians that lived in forest areas near the Pacific Ocean and tended to use totem poles |
| three regions of 13 colonies | New England, Southern, and Middle |
| Plantations | large farms in the South that used slaves to plant and harvest the crops |
| New England | poor farming due to rocky land, but great fishing and an excellent source of timber (trees); fishing, ship building, and lumber were very important; great harbors and bays for ships to park |
| Middle Colonies | Farming, mining, and textiles were very important; Good harbors and some excellent rivers for transportation |
| Southern Colonies | warm climate, but not very many good harbors or bays; mostly coastal plain with some foothills; cotton, tobacco, and indigo were cash crops |
| artisans | people who crafted things with their hands for sale such as pottery, clothing, or iron products |
| indentured servants | worked as a servant for a term of about 7 years to pay off money owed; then they were free |
| slaves | usually from Africa and were considered property by their owners |
| gentry | rich well-to-do folk; plantation owners |
| merchants | store owners |
| Henry Hudson | explored New York and portions of Canada searching for the Northwest Passage; crew mutinied and threw him off the boat; Hudson River named after him |
| Balboa | first European to see Pacific Ocean |
| Columbus | discovered an area close to North America, but actually was looking for an all-water route to Asia |
| Cartier | french explorer searching for Northwest Passage; found Canada and St. Lawrence River |
| Cabot | Explored Canada, Newfoundland, and Maine |
| Ponce de Leon | explored modern day Florida looking for the Fountain of Youth; also found the Gulf of Mexico |
| French explorers | looking for Northwest Passage and furs; explored Canada and Ohio River Valley |
| Spanish explorers | Looking for gold; were called conquistadors because would conquer and kill Indians who got in their way; explored South America, Mexico, and parts of California |
| English explorers | looking for all-water route to Asia for its spices |
| Coastal Plain | mainly along east coast from Florida to New England; flat land that is good for farming; may also include marshes (swamps) |
| Appalachian Moutains | Mountain chain that runs from Georgia to Maine; this was the boundary for the 13 colonies; everything to the west was New France |
| Great Plains | Middle part of the country where farming and buffalo were very important; Indians tended to be nomadic |
| Great Lakes | five fresh water lakes that are connected to the Atlantic Ocean by the St. Lawrence River; near Michigan and Canadian border |
| Great Basin | an area of land that is between the Rocky Mountains and the Sierra Mountains (border California) |
| Death Valley | an area of extreme heat and very little water that borders California and Nevada |
| Gulf of Mexico | a warm water region between Florida and Texas where most hurricanes are |
| Continental Divide | runs along the Rocky Mountain chain |
| Demand | how much people want something; this will effect the price |
| supply | how much you have of something; the more you have the lower the price |
| scarcity | not having much of something that people really want; price will be high |
| economics | related to how money and resources are used |
| inflation | when prices for all things go up and your money buys you less |
| revolution | how long it take the planet to orbit the Sun |
| one | how many stars are in our solar system |
| weight | a measure of the pull of gravity |
| asteriod belt | separates the inner from outer planets |
| earth's tides | result of the pull of the moon's gravity |
| rotation | how long it takes for the planet to spin one complete time on axis; a day |
| closer to sun | the faster the planet orbits; does this to keep from being pulled into the Sun |
| Gas Giants | Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune |
| atmosphere | protective blanket of gases that keep the meteors from hitting planet; lots of craters means very little atmosphere |
| ellipse | the oval shape of an orbit of the planets in our solar system |
| pronouns | he, she, we, it, they, them, his, hers, .... |
| conjunction | and, or, nor, either, neither... |
| adverb | answers teh question "how" and usually has "ly" on the end of it |
| bio- | means life |
| astro- | means star |
| hydro- | means water |
| geo- | means earth |
| pre- | means before |
| post- | means after |
| trans- | across |
| inter- | between, among |
| un- | not |
| mis- | error |
| co, con | with, together |
| re- | again, back |
| struct- | to build |
| script- | to write |
| dict- | say, speak, tell |
| spect- | look, see |
| manu- | by hand |
| legis- | law |
| sum | answer to addition |
| difference | answer to subtraction |
| quotient | answer to division |
| product | answer to multiplication |
| dividend | what you are dividing or sharing |
| divisor | how many groups you are sharing it with |
| about | estimate |
| right triangle | has to have 90 degree angle |
| triangle | 180 degrees |
| square | quadrilateral and 360 degrees |
| quadrilateral | 4 sided object |
| scalene | no angles or sides are the same |
| equilateral | all three angles are the same; 60 degrees |
| isosceles | two sides or angles are the same |
| declarative | yawn statement; what most sentence are; a statement about something |
| exclamatory | excited; an exclamation point |
| interrogative | a question; question mark |
| imperative | a command or request; doesn't usually have a person's name at front because you are looking directly at them |
| chronological order | put things in the order they happened |
| cause and effect | show how things are related |
| hyperbole | an exageration that is funny |
| simile | a comparison using "like" or "as" |
| metaphor | a comparison that doesn't use "like" or "as" |
| onomatopoeia | taking a sound and trying to spell it out |
| pun | a play on wordsw; using a word differently than it was intended to be used; may deal with homophone (words that sound the same but have different meanings) |
| personification | treating something like it was a person |
| idiom | a phrase that can't be taken literally (not word for word like "zip your lip") |
| sensory imagery | use five senses to describe things |
