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domingo, 8 de abril de 2012

THE FERTILE CRESCENT(2ND PART)

The Fertile Crescent

I.                  Answer the questions
1.      What was the oldest known written language?
a)      Phoenician
b)      Sumer
c)      Babylonia
d)      Assyria
2.      What were the cities of Phoenicia?
a)      Ur and Erech
b)      Assur and Nineveh
c)      Babylon and Mari
d)      Tyre and Sidon
3.      In Phoenicia purple clothes were a symbol of being:
a)      Poor
b)      Normal
c)      Rich
d)      Doesn’t matter
4.      Where were the Phoenician ships?
a)      In the Mediterranean
b)      Spread out the Mediterranean
c)      Around the Mediterranean
d)      Doesn’t matter
5.      The information from the clay tablets was from the:
a)      Assyria
b)      Babylonia
c)      Sumer
d)      Egypt
6.      Which civilization mastered seafaring?
a)      Phoenicia
b)      Sumer
c)      Assyria
d)      Babylonia
II.               Match

Babylonia          Assyria          Phoenicia          Mesopotamia          Mesos          Potamos
Fertile crescent          Tigris and Euphrates          Polytheistic          Geography          Babylon     
Scribes          eye for an eye          social class


A.     Was a limit to revenge:___________________
B.     Have bazaars and include all Mesopotamia:___________________
C.     The capital of Babylonia:______________________
D.     Means river:________________
E.      Professional writers:__________________
F.      It was fertile crescent + Egypt and have war technology:______________________
G.     Means middle:_______________
H.     Fertile soil and abundance of water:_______________
I.        All Mesopotamia+ Phoenicia+Canaan:_____________________
J.       Many gods:___________________
K.     They were rivers of live and death:______________________
L.      Punishment and reward depended on the:______________________
M.    Where masters of sea trade:____________________
N.     Is between 2 rivers:_________________

miércoles, 4 de abril de 2012

THE FERTILE CRESCENT

The fertile crescent
self test

ANSWERS THE NECESSITIES OF LIFE

The necessities of life


      I.            Vocabulary




1.      producer an organism that can make its own food
2.      consumer an organism that eats other organisms or organic matter
3.      ATP adenosine trisphosphate
4.      Nucleic acids  a molecule made up of subunits called nucleotides
5.      decomposer an organism that gets there food by breaking down food
6.      proteins a molecule that is made up of amino acids and that is needed to build and repair body structures and to regulate processes in the body
7.      carbohydrates a class of energy giving nutrients that includes sugars, starches, and fiber; contains carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen
8.      lipid a type of biochemical that does not dissolve in water
9.      phospholipids a lipid that contains phosphorus and that is a structural component in cell membranes
10.  air is a mixture of several different gases
11.  photosynthesis the process in which plants make food
12.  molecule is a substance when 2 atoms combine
13.  enzyme kind of protein that starts or speeds the chemical reactions in cells
14.  Starch is a carbohydrate
15.  Fat is a lipid

   II.            Answer the questions
1.      Plants store extra sugar as
a)      Proteins
b)      Starch
c)      Nucleic acids
d)      Phospholipids
2.      Organisms store energy in
a)      Nucleic acids
b)      Lipids
c)      Phospholipids
d)      Water


3.      The subunits of  nucleic acids are
a)      Nucleotides
b)      Oils
c)      Sugars
d)      Amino acids
4.      The subunits of proteins are
a)      Nucleotides
b)      Oils
c)      Sugar
d)      Amino acids
5.      The % of water is in the body?
a)      25%
b)      90%
c)      70%
d)      95%
6.      How many amino acids form proteins?
e)      20,000
f)       15,000
g)      17,000
h)      10,000
7.      Why living things must have air?
To live, to make photosynthesis, to breath, etc
8.      Based on what you know about carbohydrates, lipids, and proteins, why is important for you to eat a balanced diet?
To not consume complex carbohydrates
9.      Why is water important for an organism?
Because water helps carry living process
10.  What does food give organisms?
Energy and raw materials to carry life process
11.  Why do some organisms compete in earth?
To have a good place to live, have air, food and water
12.  Which 6 elements form living things?
Carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus and sulfur









III.            Complete the charts
Simple carbohydrates
Complex carbohydrates
Made up of one sugar molecule
Made up of many sugar molecules
Are types of carbohydrates



Oils
Fats
·         Lipids are stored in plants
·         At room temperature are liquids
·         Lipids are stored in animals
·         At room temperature are solids
Are types of lipids

Phospholipids
Lipids
·         Contain phosphorus
·         Can mix with water
·         Cannot mix with water
·         Store energy
Form part of the cell membrane of cells

IV.            Critical thinking
1.      Which resource do you think is most important to your survival: water, air, a place to live, or food? Explain your answer
VARIES
2.      Could life as we know it exist on earth if air contained only oxygen? Explain
No, because without carbon dioxide for photosynthesis plants cannot give us oxygen

jueves, 29 de marzo de 2012

THE NECESSITIES OF LIFE

 The necessities of life


      I.            Vocabulary




1.      ____________ an organism that can make its own food
2.      ____________ an organism that eats other organisms or organic matter
3.      ____________ adenosine trisphosphate
4.      ____________  a molecule made up of subunits called nucleotides
5.      ____________ an organism that gets there food by breaking down food


6.      ____________ a molecule that is made up of amino acids and that is needed to build and repair body structures and to regulate processes in the body
7.      ____________ a class of energy giving nutrients that includes sugars, starches, and fiber; contains carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen
8.      ____________a type of biochemical that does not dissolve in water
9.      ____________a lipid that contains phosphorus and that is a structural component in cell membranes
10.  ____________is a mixture of several different gases
11.  ____________the process in which plants make food
12.  ____________is a substance when 2 atoms combine
13.  ____________kind of protein that starts or speeds the chemical reactions in cells
16.  Starch is a __________
17.  Fat is a__________

   II.            Answer the questions
1.      Plants store extra sugar as
a)      Proteins
b)      Starch
c)      Nucleic acids
d)      Phospholipids
2.      Organisms store energy in
a)      Nucleic acids
b)      Lipids
c)      Phospholipids
d)      Water

3.      The subunits of  nucleic acids are
a)      Nucleotides
b)      Oils
c)      Sugars
d)      Amino acids
4.      The subunits of proteins are
a)      Nucleotides
b)      Oils
c)      Sugar
d)      Amino acids
5.      The % of water is in the body?
a)      25%
b)      90%
c)      70%
d)      95%
6.      How many amino acids form proteins?
e)      20,000
f)       15,000
g)      17,000
h)      10,000
7.      Why living things must have air?
_________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________
8.      Based on what you know about carbohydrates, lipids, and proteins, why is important for you to eat a balanced diet?
_________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________
9.      Why is water important for an organism?
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
10.  What does food give organisms?
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
11.  Why do some organisms compete in earth?
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
12.  Which 6 elements form living things?
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________




III.            Complete the charts
Simple carbohydrates
Complex carbohydrates






Oils
Fats




Phospholipids
Lipids




IV.            Critical thinking
1.      Which resource do you think is most important to your survival: water, air, a place to live, or food? Explain your answer
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
2.      Could life as we know it exist on earth if air contained only oxygen? Explain
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________