J.T. Moore 5th Grade
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Chapter 6 Social Studies Test      posted 03-01-2010
1. Be able to identify characteristics of the Butler Act, the Dust Bowl, and "Hundred Days".
2. Know the contributions of the following people: Governor Austin Peay, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Herbert Hoover, Charles Lindbergh,and Garnet and Frieda Carter.
3. Know how buying on credit caused people in the 1920's to pay interest (remember the class skit).
4. Know the major cause of the Great Depression.
5. Know how TVA helped Tennessee.
6. Know the two popular music types of the 1920's (remember the drawings we did with the music from iTunes)and another new type of entertainment.
7. Be able to describe what change happened to the Smoky Mountains.
8. Know the cause and effect of the Elizabethton strikes.
9. Be able to describe the period known as the Roaring Twenties (remember the Safari Montage video).
10. Be able to list the effects of the stock market crash on the U.S. economy.
11. Be able to describe life during the Great Depression (remember the Safari Montage video).
12. Be able to describe how the New Deal benefitted Tennessee in 3 to 4 sentences minimum.
13. Choose one of the following historical figures and write 3 facts about their life: Austin Peay, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Herbert Hoover, W.C. Handy, Clarence Saunders, or John T. Scopes.

Chapter 5 Test Notes      posted 02-21-2010
1. Be able to use the following words to complete a sentence: atom, density, ductility, element, malleability, metals, molecule, neutralization, nucleus, volume.
2. Know the units that are used to measure weight.
3. Know how the state of most elements at room temperature.
4. Know the charges of the particles inside an atom.
5. Know examples of elements with small atomic mass.
6. Be able to explain what happens when metals combine with nonmetals from the environment(think of our lab with vinegar, pennies, and paperclips).
7. Be able to apply the density formula (think of the lab with the triple balance, graduated cylinders, element samples, and calculators).
8. Know the location of the proton, neutron, and electron inside an atom and be able to describe them.
9. Be able to give examples of how people use aluminum and why it is a good choice based on its properties.
10. Know where the nonmetals are located on the periodic table.
11. Be able to explain buoyancy and give an example.
12. Be able to explain the three important properties of elements.
13. Be able to explain what you would do to measure the volume of a marble (think of how you did that in the lab with element samples).




Chapter 5 Social Studies      posted 01-25-2010
1. Terms to know- Prohibition, Jim Crow laws, suffrage, Nineteenth Amendment, u-boats, League of Nations
2. People to know- Woodrow Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt, Abby Crawford Milton, Jane Addams
3. Know examples of Progressive Era improvements and why it this era was called the Progressive Era.
4. Know the pros and cons of industrialization.
5. Know examples of what Americans did to help the war effort.
6. Know which side (Central or Allied Powers) won the war.
7. Be able to explain why the United States wanted to stay neutral during WWI and what caused the United States to enter WWI.
8. Be able to describe the views of the suffragists and anti-suffragists.
9. Be able to describe the accomplishments of one Progressive Era reformer.
10. Be able to describe how WWI and the Nineteenth Amendment changed life for women.



Chapter 2 Science Test      posted 11-13-2009
1. Know definitions or examples of adaptation, camouflauge, fertilization, genes, fossil, heredity, mutation, protective coloration, variations, trait.
2. Be able to identify an example of a runner (type of asexual reproduction) from a group of pictures.
3. Know the difference between absolute age and relative age of fossils.
4. Know the difference between sexual and asexual reproduction.
5. Be able to identify an example of an instinctive behavior.
6. Be able to describe a pedigree.
7. Be able to look at a diagram of rock layers and determine which layer would contain the oldest fossils.
8. Be able to decide the possibility of dominant and recessive traits that could occur when give the parent traits.



Social Studies Chapter 3 Test Notes      posted 11-10-2009
1. Know the contributions of the following people: Jefferson Davis, Frederick Douglass, Clara Barton, Abraham Lincoln
2. Be familiar with the Anaconda Plan, Battle of Shiloh, Fort Sumter, Battle of Gettysburg, reason for end of Civil War.
3. Be able to explain the Emancipation Proclamation, Tennessee's decision about secession, the "writ of habeas corpus" and why Lincoln suspended it during war, and Reconstruction.
4. Know the North's and the South's resources as the Civil War began.
5. Be able to explain ways the Civil War affected Tennessee.

Ch. 1 Science Test      posted 09-23-2009
1. Be very familiar with these vocabulary words- abiotic, cell, commensalism, community, cellular respiration, ecosystem, photosynthesis, population, prey, food web, predator, prey, and tissue.

2. Know the levels of a food chain (remember group project and tri-fold study guide).

3. Know the differences among the symbiotic relationships (use tri-fold study guide).

4. Know the differences among the types of consumers (use tri-fold study guide).

5. Know examples of biotic and abiotic factors (use tri-fold study guide).

6. Be able to give an example and description of an organelle (use layered book study guide).