Instruments

Sumerians played the lyre.

List 5 instruments people play today.

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Sumer Jobs

There were news jobs in ancient Sumer! People had options (well, not really...)

PRIEST SCRIBE KING SERVANT MERCHANT MUSICIAN

1. Which job would you have liked to have most if you were a Sumerian. Explain why.

2. Which job would you NOT have liked to have? Explain why.

Fair Laws

Laws should be fair.

Suppose you borrow your friends ipod. It gets stolen out out your backpack at lunch.

What should be your punishment?

City or Country?

What are 2 good things about living in a city?
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2.

What is one bad thing about living in a city?
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What are 2 good things about living in the country?
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2.

What is one bad thing about living in the country?
1.

Mesopotamia Myths

Use 5 adjectives to describe Gilgamesh.

(Use can use your Mesopotamian myths for help.)

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Cuneiform

Why do you think that people do not write in cuneiform today?

California

Using your knowledge about plates and faults... why is it more likely that California will experience and earthquake while New York will not?

Earthquake Kit

What are 5 things that should be in an earthquake kit?

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Richter Scale

1. What does a Richter Scale measure?

2. What is the difference between a 2.5 and a 8.1 on a Richter Scale?

EQ Damage

Why do SURFACE waves cause more damage than BODY waves?

Snow

Why does it snow in New Jersey in January but not in Los Angeles?

Waves

List two types of SEISMIC waves:

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2.

Tips

1. What is a tip?

2. Who would you give a tip to?

3. Why do people give tips?

4. If a meal cost $20.00, how much do you think a good tip would be?

Rates

A ladybug can fly 10 miles in 5 hours. How many miles can it fly PER hour?

Equivalent Ratios

If there are 4 valilla coookies to 10 cookies total, how many vanilla cookie would there be is there were 20 cookies?

4 = x
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10 20

Ratios

Show the following as a ratio in 3 different ways.

12 boys and 28 girls

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Linear Equations

If y= 5, solve for the following problems:

1. ) 6 + y =

2.) y x 9 =

3.) 80 -y =

4.) 3 x 4 - y =

5.) 20 + y - 15 =

Variables

What is a variable?

Give an exmaple of a variable: